Wilfried Backhaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilfried Backhaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Backhaus |
| SIGNATURE | BACKHAUS W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hume's Touchstone and the Politics of Meaningful Discourse
In this paper I propose we read David Hume's view of meaningful discourse, or his theory of meaning, as an aspect of his theory of politics. I will argue that readings which ignore the political dimension are incomplete and distort Hume's position. When I use the word ‘political’ in the Humean context, however, it means something similar to what we mean by the term ‘social’; in the Humean context ‘politics’ is inclusive of the narrow sense taken …
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Hume's Touchstone and the Politics of Meaningful Discourse
In this paper I propose we read David Hume's view of meaningful discourse, or his theory of meaning, as an aspect of his theory of politics. I will argue that readings which ignore the political dimension are incomplete and distort Hume's position. When I use the word ‘political’ in the Humean context, however, it means something similar to what we mean by the term ‘social’; in the Humean context ‘politics’ is inclusive of the narrow sense taken …
American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Dimension (graph theory) (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Meaning (existential) (1 work) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)