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The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays

By Margaret Watkins

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
1108476279, 9781108476270
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2590321 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
288\280
Time added
2019-02-06 03:21:50
HumePhilosophical Progress

Description

For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something to say. In the first comprehensive study of the Essays, Margaret Watkins engages closely with these neglected texts and shows how they provide important insights into Hume's perspective on the breadth and depth of human life, arguing that the Essays reveal his continued commitment to philosophy as a discipline that can promote both social and individual progress. Addressing topics such as politics, war, slavery, the priesthood, the development of industry, aesthetics, emotional disorders, egoism, friendship, sexuality, gender relations, and the nature of philosophy itself, the volume examines Hume's purposes and aims against the backdrop of the eighteenth century society in which he lived. It will be of interest to scholars of modern thought in philosophy, politics, history, and economics.

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