Une critique d'explication par les causes finales

This article proposes to show how David Hume's critique of contractualism is the political consequence of his analysis of causality. Hume rejects contractualism mainly for methodological reasons: explanations based on final causes are never satisfying. Therefore, contractualism applies to the political sphere the argument from design presented in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. The genesis of politics unfolded in A Treatise of Human Nature must be seen as a particular application of the only pertinent way of explaining phenomena, i.e., natural history, in which sympathy immanently configures and reconfigures society. The final cause must be replaced by the efficient cause. Hume's political theory—either positive or negative—and epistemology cannot be dissociated

Argument (complex analysis) · Causality (physics) · Contractualism · Epistemology · Explication · Natural (archaeology) · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sympathy · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Hume's philosophy and hair distribution · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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