Thomas Merrill

Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781107519657
• ISBN-10: 1107519659
• Artikelnr.: 52423840

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.