What are you looking for?
9781108476270

The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays by Margaret Watkins

$19.50

✓Free EPUB conversionAsk any time and we convert it for your device.
✓Right edition guaranteedWrong edition or ISBN? Free swap.
✓Help any day, any hourFile will not open? We fix it or refund you.
✓Buy once, keep itNo subscription, no app, no expiry date.
Author
Margaret Watkins
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-1108752596
Need another format after purchase? Email us and we will convert it for free
Loading payment options…
Description

The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays

Author: Margaret Watkins (Author)

Publication Date: January 3, 2019

ISBN-13: 978-1108752596

Description: For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume’s Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something to say. In the first comprehensive study of the Essays, Margaret Watkins engages closely with these neglected texts and shows how they provide important insights into Hume’s perspective on the breadth and depth of human life, arguing that the Essays reveal his continued commitment to philosophy as a discipline that can promote both social and individual progress. Addressing topics such as politics, war, slavery, the priesthood, the development of industry, aesthetics, emotional disorders, egoism, friendship, sexuality, gender relations, and the nature of philosophy itself, the volume examines Hume’s purposes and aims against the backdrop of the eighteenth century society in which he lived. It will be of interest to scholars of modern thought in philosophy, politics, history, and economics.