Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781474474597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 360 str.

Ryu Susato

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. ‘The empire of the imagination’: The association of ideas in Hume’s social philosophy; 3. ‘What is Established?’: Hume’s Social Philosophy of Opinion 4. ‘Refinement’ and ‘Vicious Luxury’: Hume’s Nuanced Defence of Luxury; 5. Taming ‘the tyranny of priests’: Hume’s advocacy of religious establishments; 6. ‘To refine the democracy’: Hume’s perfect commonwealth as a development of his political science; 7. Human society ‘in perpetual flux’: Hume’s pendulum theory of civilisation; 8.‘The Prince of Sceptics’ and ‘The Prince of Historians’: Hume’s Influence and Image in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.