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Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy

Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy

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  • ISBN-13: 9780691086262
  • ISBN: 0691086265
  • Publication Date: 1992
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press

AUTHOR

Stewart, John B.

SUMMARY

The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong, writes John Stewart. Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles. In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal moral and political philosopher. Against the background of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century history and thought, Hume emerges as a proponent not of conservatism but of reform. Stewart first presents the dilemma over morals in the modern natural-law school, then examines the new approach to moral and political philosophy adopted by Hume's precursors Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Butler. Illuminating Hume's explanation of the standards and rules that should govern private and public life, the author challenges interpretations of Hume's philosophy as conservative by demonstrating that he did not dismiss reason as a key factor determining right and wrong in moral and political contexts. Stewart goes on to show that Hume viewed private property, the market, contracts, and the rule of law as essential to genuine civilized society, and explores Hume's criticism of contemporary British beliefs concerning government, religion, commerce, international relations, and social structure.Stewart, John B. is the author of 'Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy', published 1992 under ISBN 9780691086262 and ISBN 0691086265.

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