A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise Capitalism
I mentioned this a while back. Adam SmithcapitalismCarl WennerlindDavid HumeEconomicsMargaret Schabaspolitical economyScottish Enlightenmentscottish philosophy
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David Hume
Born on this date in 1711. David HumePhilosophyScottish Enlightenmentscottish philosophy
A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
This forthcoming title promises to be a fascinating read. Hopefully it delivers. Adam Smithcapitalismclassical liberalismDavid HumeEconomicspolitical economy
Hume the humane
Julian Baggini on Hume. Hume was always suspicious of what he called ‘enthusiasts’ and it is perhaps telling that the meaning of this word now has an unambiguously positive meaning . . . To be an enthusiast in Hume’s sense is to forget one is human and act as though one were a god, sufficient in…
Of the Standard of Taste
Striking paragraph in Hume’s Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1757). aestheticsAtheismDavid HumeislamLiberalismregressive leftReligionOfPeaceScottish Enlightenment
Williams: Hume on Religion
The vulgar perhaps need a religion: if so, polytheism may well be better, as doing less harm. The sophisticated may well do without one: the trouble is that the religion they may be tempted to embrace may be even worse than the primitive one. Here also, and in some ways parallel, is a distinction that…
The Place of Liberty in David Hume’s Project
The very excellent Nick Capaldi has the anchor essay with responses from Daniel Klein, Andrew Sabl, and Chandran Kukathas. Andrew SablChandran Kukathasclassical liberalismDaniel KleinDavid HumeNicholas CapaldiPolitical philosophyScottish Enlightenment
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
I’m looking forward to this. Check out the introduction as well. THE review here. Adam SmithDavid HumeDennis C. RasmussenfriendshipLiberalismScottish Enlightenmentscottish philosophy
Hume’s Call to Action
A review article of James Harris’ Hume: An Intellectual Biography Hume reconceived the task of philosophy. It ought not to be championed, as the ancient schools had done, as a “medicine for the mind.” Nor was it a source of rules for action that would guarantee righteousness. Its role was critical reflection rather than exhortation…
Dear dear David . . . we salute you
A nice piece (via my chum David Livingstone Smith) entitled “A Philosopher in Love“: The “chief triumph of art and philosophy,” he wrote years before meeting Boufflers, is that it “refines the temper” and “points out to us those dispositions which we should endeavor to attain, by a constant bent of mind and by repeated…
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