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Great books of the Western world volume 35
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
c1952.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liberty Fund
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century...
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Series
Very short introductions volume 33
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosophy is grounded in an honest assessment of nature - human nature in particular. The Great Guide is an engaging and eye-opening account of how Hume's thought should serve as the basis for a complete approach to life. In this enthralling book,...
16) The infidel and the professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought
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English
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"David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen...
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