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 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, 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
Author: George HornePublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385677957
Category :
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°
The Life of Adam Smith
Author: Ian Simpson RossPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199550034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
In this, the first full-scale biography of Adam Smith for a hundred years, Ian Simpson Ross brings his subject into historical light as a thinker and author by examining his family circumstance, education, career, and social and intellectual circle, including David Hume and Francois Quesnay. Smith's life is revealed through his correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of his publications. This is the life of a Scottish moral philosopher whose legacy of thought concerns and affects us all. Its lively and informed account will appeal to those interested in the social and intellectual milieu of the eighteenth century, and in Scottish history. Economists and philosophers will find much to read about the history of their disciplines, supported by full documentation.
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.
A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
Empire and Modern Political Thought
Author: Sankar MuthuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire. The creation of vast transcontinental empires and imperial trading networks played a key role in the development of modern European political thought. The rise of modern empires raised fundamental questions about virtually the entire contested set of concepts that lay at the heart of modern political philosophy, such as property, sovereignty, international justice, war, trade, rights, transnational duties, civilization, and progress. From Renaissance republican writings about conquest and liberty to sixteenth-century writings about the Spanish conquest of the Americas through Enlightenment perspectives about conquest and global commerce and nineteenth-century writings about imperial activities both within and outside of Europe, these essays survey the central moral and political questions occasioned by the development of overseas empires and European encounters with the non-European world among theologians, historians, philosophers, diplomats, and merchants.
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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