Name: Hume: Political Writings
Brand: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)
SKU: 9780872201613
Price: 40.99 GBP
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Hume: Political Writings

By (author): David Hume, Edited by: Stuart Warner, Edited by: Donald Livingston

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)

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£40.99

Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780872201613
Publication Date: 01-Jul-1994

Subjects:
Dictionaries
Philosophy
Social & political philosophy

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The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature , An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals , and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary , with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.

Stuart D. Warner is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Roosevelt University.

DONALD LIVINGSTON is a professor of philosophy at Emory University. He has published two books on the British philosopher David Hume and has been described as "the greatest Hume scholar of the 20th century." Livingston, along with other academics, formed the Abbeville Institute, an organization in higher education dedicated to scholarly study of Southern tradition.