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	David Hume: The Philosopher as Historian

Nicholas Phillipson
Yale University Press, Mar 27, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 168 pages
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A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English. He was also a brilliant historian. In this book—a new and revised edition of his 1989 classic—Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics. As a philosopher, Hume sought a way of seeing the world and pursuing happiness independently of a belief in God. His groundbreaking approach applied the same outlook to Britain's history, showing how the past was shaped solely through human choices and actions.
In this analysis of Hume's life and works, from his university days in Edinburgh to the rapturous reception of his History of England, Nicholas Phillipson reveals the gradual process by which one of the greatest Western philosophers turned himself into one of the greatest historians of Britain. In doing so, he shows us how revolutionary Hume was, and why his ideas still matter today.



 		 
	


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Contents
	Prologue
	1
	  	
	1 Life and Letters
	5
	  	
	2 Politics Politeness and Men of Letters
	16
	  	
	3 Scepticism Science and the Natural History of Man
	32
	  	
	4 A Philosophers Agenda for a History of England
	50
	  	
	The Stuarts and the Origins of the Matchless Constitution
	70
	  	



	The Tudors and the Early History of England
	100
	  	
	7 Philosophy History and The History of England
	126
	  	
	Notes and Bibliography
	136
	  	
	Index
	151
	  	
	Copyright
	
	  	








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		David Hume: The Philosopher as Historian
Nicholas T. Phillipson,Professor Nicholas Phillipson
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Nicholas Phillipson
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		David Hume: The Philosopher as Historian
Nicholas Phillipson
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About the author (2012)
Nicholas Phillipson is Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1965. He is the author of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life.




Bibliographic information

	Title	David Hume: The Philosopher as Historian
	Author	Nicholas Phillipson
	Edition	unabridged
	Publisher	Yale University Press, 2012
	ISBN	0300181663, 9780300181661
	Length	168 pages
	Subjects	Philosophy
 › History & Surveys
 › Modern


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