Aaron Alexander Zubia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Alexander Zubia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Zubia |
| SIGNATURE | ZUBIA A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6429-4659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond Hume
Scholarship over the last 70 years has shown that Madison looked to Hume for insight regarding faction, constitutional attachment, and political methodology. But the now commonplace image of a Humean Madison is misleading. I argue that Madison’s understanding of self-government drew from the science of man articulated in Witherspoon’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy , Hutcheson’s moral sense theory, and Reid’s common sense philosophy. These Scottish…
The Development of Public Conscience
Hume devised a third way between Hobbes and Locke that bolstered the former’s defense of stability and the latter’s defense of rebellion. This feat remains underappreciated. Hume’s third way rests on the idea of the public conscience, which, like Hobbes’s idea of the public conscience, derives from communication and consensus. The public conscience orients us toward the public interest, which, in Hume’s theory, is the authoritative standard by wh…
The Limits of Instinctual Conservatism
The Political Thought of David Hume
Political Thought of David Hume
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The Political Thought of David Hume
Political Thought of David Hume
The Development of Public Conscience
Hume devised a third way between Hobbes and Locke that bolstered the former’s defense of stability and the latter’s defense of rebellion. This feat remains underappreciated. Hume’s third way rests on the idea of the public conscience, which, like Hobbes’s idea of the public conscience, derives from communication and consensus. The public conscience orients us toward the public interest, which, in Hume’s theory, is the authoritative standard by wh…
The Limits of Instinctual Conservatism
Beyond Hume
Scholarship over the last 70 years has shown that Madison looked to Hume for insight regarding faction, constitutional attachment, and political methodology. But the now commonplace image of a Humean Madison is misleading. I argue that Madison’s understanding of self-government drew from the science of man articulated in Witherspoon’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy , Hutcheson’s moral sense theory, and Reid’s common sense philosophy. These Scottish…
Politics (3 works) · Conscience (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Adam smith (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Common sense (1 works)