Author: George HornePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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A Letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the Life, Death,updd Philosophy of His Friend David Hume Esq. By One of the People Called Christians
Author: George HorneA letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the life, death, and philosophy of his friend David Hume esq., by one of the people called Christians [G. Horne].
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Author: George Horne (bp. of Norwich.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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A Letter to Adam Smith, LL.D. on the life, death and philosophy of his friend David Hume, Esq. By one of the people called Christians i.e. George Horne ... The fifth edition
Author: George HORNE (Bishop of Norwich.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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A Letter to Adam Smith, LL.D., on the Life ... of his Friend David Hume being an answer to the former's letter to Mr. Strahan ... By one of the people called Christians i.e. George Horne ... The second edition
Author: George HORNE (Bishop of Norwich.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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A Letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of His Friend David Hume Esq. by One of the People Called Christians
Author: George HornePublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385677957
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library T038082 One of the people called Christians = George Horne. With a half-title. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1777. Sold by Daniel Prince; and by J. F. and C. Rivington, G. Robinson, and T. Payne and Son, London, [1777]. [4], iv,47, [1]p.; 8°
A Letter to Adam Smith ... on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of His Friend David Hume ...
Author: George HornePublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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A Letter to Adam Smith LL. D. on the Life, Death, Updd Philosophy of His Friend David Hume Esq. By One of the People Called Christians
Author: George HorneThe Ironic Hume
Author: John Valdimir PricePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477301755
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind immediately perceives. Author John Valdimir Price contends that an understanding of Hume's writings cannot be separated from an understanding of his life. By examining the works of Hume, Price shows the way in which an ironic way of seeing events and an ironic mode of expression permeated Hume's life and writings. Price examines Hume's irony as it is exhibited in letters to his friends and in his writings concerned with morality, people, philosophy, politics, history, and above all religion. Hume's opinions on life in general are stated in works ranging from the Treatise of Human Nature and the Essays, Moral and Political, through the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding and the Enquiry concerning Principles of Morals, to the Dialogue and Four Dissertations of his maturity. Price feels that Hume's recognition of the ironic in life came about from his perception of the disproportion between human hopes and human accomplishments. The rhetorical consequences of applying reason to a duality in human nature creates the ironic mode. Hume conceived man's opposing tendencies as his willingness to commit himself orally to a concept, a dogma, an idea, or an ideology, and his unwillingness to involve himself in the logical and rhetorical implications of articulating those principles. Hume's use of the ironic mode in his writings provides him with a means of challenging certain dogmatic assumptions common to thought, particularly to traditional religious thought; it acts as a mask for his sceptical intentions, and it is an implied criticism of many ideas. In his political writing, Hume frequently implied that the question under argument was almost too ridiculous to deserve serious treatment. This tactic was effectively employed in the Account of Stewart, in which Hume came to the defense of a friend. In his most profitable venture, the History of England, Hume not only used irony to advantage, but developed a new approach to the writing of history—the use of narrative. He presented history as a series of more or less connected events, not as a series of "right" or "wrong" attitudes. The author believes that Hume's initial religious scepticism, combined with the predominant satiric-ironic mode in the literature of his time, led him to seek irony as a method of self expression. This scepticism, which permeated all of Hume's attitudes toward life, reached its most complete expression in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, which accepted reason as its guide, but also accepted experience as its master.
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Author: William AndersonThe Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith
Author: Christopher J. BerryPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654655
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Adam Smith (1723-90) is a thinker with a distinctive perspective on human behaviour and social institutions. He is best known as the author of the An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). Yet his work is name-checked more often than it is read and then typically it is of an uninformed nature; that he is an apologist for capitalism, a forceful promoter of self-interest, a defender of greed and a critic of any 'interference' in market transactions . To offset this caricature, this Handbook provides an informed portrait. Drawing on the expertise of leading Smith scholars from around the world, it reflects the depth and breadth of Smith's intellectual interests. After an introductory outline chapter on Smith's life and times, the volume comprises 28 new essays divided into seven parts. Five sections are devoted to particular themes in Smith's corpus - his views on Language, Art and Culture; his Moral Philosophy; his Economic thought, his discussions of History and Politics and his analyses of Social Relations. These five parts are framed by one that focuses on the immediate and proximate sources of his thought and the final one that recognizes Smith's status as a thinker of world-historical significance - indicating both his posthumous impact and influence and his contemporary resonance. While each chapter is a discrete contribution to scholarship, the Handbook comprises a composite whole to enable the full range of Smith's work to be appreciated.