Read Selected Essays Oxford World Classics David Hume Stephen Copley Andrew Edgar Books
Read Selected Essays Oxford World Classics David Hume Stephen Copley Andrew Edgar Books
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In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
As seen in these selections, Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic, and historical concerns, charting the state of civil society, manners, morals, and taste, and the development of political economy in the mid-eighteenth century. These essays represent not only those areas where Hume's arguments representative of his age, but also where he is strikingly innovative.
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Read Selected Essays Oxford World Classics David Hume Stephen Copley Andrew Edgar Books
"This is not only a brief defense of his views, logically supported against the back drop of social confines and flutes of this time. David Hume is as relevant in today's billowing gusts of Christianity, hypocrisy, or parochial gossip that passes for journalism; perhaps more so, as his concept of human understanding does not disband consequences from ones' actions. Religion does that. How else can you explain an ex-state governor, whore-monger, or convicted felons as paid commentators on evening news broadcasts?
In Hume's day, I doubt the philosophers or great thinkers of the day ever worried that religion would "crowd out" logic, human values, and societal adherence to innately held cultural virtues.
Is that why American politicians now, and with a shameless impunity unimaginable in countries of a better educated electorate, embrace their so called "faith" much closer to their vests than they do the disappearing notion of "honor," as even the dimmest among them realizes religion will trump any effort to link obligation, whether civil, moral, or political (amoral) to a morally defensible framework of "ethics."
Read this. We need to bring better educated persons back into government, allow them back into our universities, and never stop questioning the validity of ideas."
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Selected Essays Oxford World Classics David Hume Stephen Copley Andrew Edgar Books Reviews :
Selected Essays Oxford World Classics David Hume Stephen Copley Andrew Edgar Books Reviews
- My 18 year old suddenly became the philosopher and wanted to explore new thoughts. This is a good, thought provoking collection that he thoroughly enjoyed.
- Magnificent writing.
- This is not only a brief defense of his views, logically supported against the back drop of social confines and flutes of this time. David Hume is as relevant in today's billowing gusts of Christianity, hypocrisy, or parochial gossip that passes for journalism; perhaps more so, as his concept of human understanding does not disband consequences from ones' actions. Religion does that. How else can you explain an ex-state governor, whore-monger, or convicted felons as paid commentators on evening news broadcasts?
In Hume's day, I doubt the philosophers or great thinkers of the day ever worried that religion would "crowd out" logic, human values, and societal adherence to innately held cultural virtues.
Is that why American politicians now, and with a shameless impunity unimaginable in countries of a better educated electorate, embrace their so called "faith" much closer to their vests than they do the disappearing notion of "honor," as even the dimmest among them realizes religion will trump any effort to link obligation, whether civil, moral, or political (amoral) to a morally defensible framework of "ethics."
Read this. We need to bring better educated persons back into government, allow them back into our universities, and never stop questioning the validity of ideas. - No need to comment on a classic
- In her lifetime, Woolf was known more for essays than her fiction. These luminous essays show why.
- Hume is known today primarily for his seminal philosophical works. He regarded himself, however, as a man of letters who contributed to many areas and he was known best to his contemporaries as a historian. This nice collection of essays displays the breadth of Hume's interests and his well developed writing style. Hume was particularly interested in essays which would bring important topics before a broad public and wrote in an accessible and often entertaining style. Some of Hume's best known essays on philosophical and religous topics are included in this collection. What may be of greatest interest are some of the lesser known essays which display both the versatility and the power of Hume's intellect. Included are essays on economics and international trade, and also some political theory. Hume was an opponent of mercantilist ideas, supporting the largely correct notion that trade would enrich all parties. His political theory is particularly interesting. In contradistinction to the widely accepted ideas of the time, Hume suggested that republican governments could be stable if the size of the republic was large enough to encompass enough competing groups to prevent one from assuming complete control. It is known that James Madison read Hume in the period leading up to the Constitutional Convention and many scholars suspect that Hume's ideas were the germ of the defense of republicanism/federalism developed by Madison in the Federalist Papers. A momentous idea with momentous consequences.
- Written in the highly polished Augustan prose style of the period, this is a fine selection of essays from the pen of the great Scottish philosopher, historian and economist, David Hume. The essays range from aesthetics, commerce, history and ethics, which include such pieces as "The Epicurean", "The Stoic" and "The Sceptic" (Hume's own credo) all which are rather curiously positioned and excellently written guides to living. "Of the Immortality of the Soul" and "Of Suicide", two of Hume's most controversial essays touching on theological topics, are also included in this volume. Both succeeded, with their bold, original arguments, in outraging the British clergy, which helps us to understand why Hume decided to have them published posthumously.
- This comparatively short book consists of extremely well-selected essays by the great Scottish philosopher and historian, on everything from public credit to delicacy of taste. Also included are the different classes of philosphers, including the class Hume falls under, The Sceptic (Hume's sp.). There is also an exceedingly interesting essay on the populousness of the world in ancient times. Apparently, the accepted notion at Hume's time was that there were hordes of people in ancient times and that our race has been dwindling ever since. Hume, on the other hand, proposes the radical notion that just the opposite is the case, and sets out to prove it quite handily.-Overall, the best introduction to one of my favorite writers that I've yet to read.
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