Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Thomas W. Merrill is a political theorist in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He was a senior research analyst at the President's Council on Bioethics and is the co-editor of Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass (with Yuval Levin and Adam Schulman, 2010) and Human Dignity and Bioethics (with Edmind D. Pellegrino and Adam Schulman, 2009). He has held fellowships from Princeton University, New Jersey, Harvard University, Massachusetts, and the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC. Klappentext This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning. Zusammenfassung The first work to make Hume's comparison of himself to Socrates the basis of an extended interpretation! this book shows how Hume's turn to moral and political philosophy is a response to the crisis of radical questioning. It will interest Hume specialists! political theorists! and historians of political philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Hume's Socratism; 2. Calling philosophy down from the heavens; 3. Turning to the human things; 4. Investigating morality and politics; 5. Hume's cultural revolution: the Essays, part 1; 6. The education of the honest gentlemen: the Essays, part 2; Epilogue.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas Merrill, Thomas W. (American University Merrill, Merrill Thomas W.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107519657
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51965-7
• Pagine: 211
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Sociology, History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Terrorism, armed struggle, Crime and criminology, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -