The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays

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.

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethical egoism · Friendship · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Historical Philosophy and Science · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · david Hume (1711-1776) · scottish

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• Self-Knowledge and Hume's Phenomenology of the Passions

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• Hume on Race and Slavery

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• Hume on Pride, Vanity and Society

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• Hume's skeptical philosophy and the moderation of pride

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• Escepticismo y facciones políticas en los ensayos de David Hume

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• Hume’s Politics and Four Dimensions of Realism

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• Moral Prejudices

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• A Progress of Sentiments

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• Hume on the Standard of Virtue

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• Passion and Value in Hume's Treatise

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• Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men

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• Duty and Desolation

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• Humanity, sympathy and the puzzle of Hume's second enquiry

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• Virtue, Commerce, and History

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• Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith

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• Schopenhauer as Educator

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• The Role of Political Economy in Hume’s Moral Philosophy

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• The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

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• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

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• Hume and Prejudice

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• Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment

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• New Letters of David Hume

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• David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America

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• The Cambridge Companion to Hume

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• Hume, Hegel and Human Nature

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• David Hume's Political Economy

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• Abolition

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• Political Essays

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• The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law

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• The Ethics of Authenticity

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• The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, Vol. 5

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• The Machiavellian Moment

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• Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Elements in Hume

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• Hume and Conjectural History

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• What's True about Hume's ‘True Religion’

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• Vanity, Virtue and the Duel

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• The Melancholy of the Philosopher

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• The Gothic Origin of Modern Civility

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• The Potential Use-Value of Hume's ‘True Religion’

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• Classical Republicanism and the History of Ethics

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• Barbarism and religion, Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764

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• Strength of mind

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• Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature

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• Mixed Feelings, Mixed Metaphors

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• Hume's Reading of the Classics at Ninewells , 1749 –51

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• Agency, Ideology, and Violence in the History of Transatlantic Slavery

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• Liberty, Manners, and Politeness in Early Eighteenth-Century England

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• Hume’s Psychology of the Passions

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• Moral Phenomenology in Hutcheson and Hume

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• Correcting Our Sentiments about Hume's Moral Point of View

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• Hume and the Contexts of Politics

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• A Philosopher in his Closet

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• Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume

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• Humean Moral Pluralism

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• Hume’s True Scepticism

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• Reconciling the Stoic and the Sceptic

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• The Philosopher's Seduction

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• Slaves among Us

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• Hume's Politics

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• Religion in the Public Square

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• Hume's Political Science and the Classical Republican Tradition

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• Hume, Conjectural History, and the Uniformity of Human Nature

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• "Taming "The Tyranny of Priests

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• From Hume to Hegel

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• The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico

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• Hume's Distinction between Philosophical Anatomy and Painting

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• Hume, Race, and Human Nature

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• Hume's Revised Racism

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• Libertarian Demography

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• The Suasive Art of David Hume

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• Hume's 'Singular Phenomenon

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• The Contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the Abandonment of the Institution of Slavery

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• Hume the Moral Historian

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• The Complete Essays of Montaigne

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