Essays: Moral, Political and LiteraryCosimo, Inc., 01.12.2007 - 628 Seiten As part of the tried and true model of informal essay writing, Hume began publishing his Essays: Moral, Political and Literary in 1741. The majority of these finely honed treatises fall into three distinct areas: political theory, economic theory and aesthetic theory. Interestingly, Hume's was motivated to produce a collection of informal essays given the poor public reception of his more formally written Treatise of Human Nature in 1739. He hoped that his work would be interesting not only to the educated man, but to the common man as well. He passionately argues that essays provide a forum for discussing his philosophy of "common life." DAVID HUME (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived in France from 1734 to 1737, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40). His additional philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). |
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... circumstances to be compared , and such a know- ledge of human nature requisite , that no man , who is not possessed of the soundest judgment , will ever make a tolerable critic in such performances . And this is a new reason for ...
... circumstances to be compared , and such a know- ledge of human nature requisite , that no man , who is not possessed of the soundest judgment , will ever make a tolerable critic in such performances . And this is a new reason for ...
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... circumstances . In the first , the magistrate has no jealousy of the people ; in the second , the people have none of the magistrate which want of jealousy begets a mutual confidence and trust in both cases , and produces a species of ...
... circumstances . In the first , the magistrate has no jealousy of the people ; in the second , the people have none of the magistrate which want of jealousy begets a mutual confidence and trust in both cases , and produces a species of ...
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... impossible to keep men faithfully and unerringly in the paths of justice . Some extraordinary circumstances may happen , in which a man finds his interests to be more promoted by fraud or rapine , than hurt by 35 Of the Origin of ...
... impossible to keep men faithfully and unerringly in the paths of justice . Some extraordinary circumstances may happen , in which a man finds his interests to be more promoted by fraud or rapine , than hurt by 35 Of the Origin of ...
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... circumstance , which is essential to the existence of civil society , must always support itself , and needs be guarded with less jealousy , than one that contributes only to its perfection , which the indolence of men is so apt to ...
... circumstance , which is essential to the existence of civil society , must always support itself , and needs be guarded with less jealousy , than one that contributes only to its perfection , which the indolence of men is so apt to ...
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... circumstances , it was but little countenanced by the civil magistrate , and that the priesthood was allowed to engross all the authority in the new sect . bad a use did they make of this power , even in those early times , that the ...
... circumstances , it was but little countenanced by the civil magistrate , and that the priesthood was allowed to engross all the authority in the new sect . bad a use did they make of this power , even in those early times , that the ...
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Of Interest | 303 |
Of the Balance of Trade | 316 |
Of the Jealousy of Trade | 334 |
Of the Balance of Power | 339 |
Of Taxes | 349 |
Of Public Credit | 355 |
Of some Remarkable Customs | 372 |
Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations | 381 |
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The Epicurean | 139 |
The Stoic | 147 |
The Platonist | 157 |
The Sceptic | 161 |
Of Polygamy and Divorces | 185 |
ESSAY PAGE 20 Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing | 196 |
Of National Characters | 202 |
Of Tragedy | 221 |
Of the Standard of Taste | 231 |
PART II | 257 |
Of Commerce | 259 |
Of Refinement in the Arts | 275 |
Of Money | 289 |
Of the Original Contract | 452 |
Of Passive Obedience | 474 |
Of the Coalition of Parties | 478 |
Of the Protestant Succession | 487 |
Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth | 499 |
THE ESSAY ON MIRACLES | 517 |
ADDITIONAL ESSAYS | 545 |
Of Impudence and Modesty | 547 |
Of Love and Marriage | 552 |
Of the Study of History | 558 |
ESSAY PAGE 4 Of Avarice | 563 |
Of Essay Writing | 568 |
Of Moral Prejudices | 573 |
Of the Middle Station of Life | 579 |
Of Suicide | 585 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 597 |
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY HIMSELF | 605 |
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Seite 234 - One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.
Seite 615 - I was, I say, a man of mild disposition, of command of temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity and of great moderation in all my passions. Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments.
Seite 40 - POLITICAL writers have established it as a maxim, that, in contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.
Seite 203 - I mean those qualities of the air and climate, which are supposed to work insensibly on the temper, by altering the tone and habit of the body, and giving a particular complexion, which, though reflection and reason may sometimes overcome it, will yet prevail among the generality of mankind, and have an influence on their manners.
Seite 125 - To balance a large state or society [says he], whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able, by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it. The judgments of many must unite in the work; experience must guide their labor; time must bring it to perfection, and the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes which they inevitably fall into in their first trials and experiments...
Seite 234 - All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right, because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, — to wit, real matter of fact, and are not always conformable to that standard.
Seite 298 - It seems a maxim almost self-evident, that the prices of every thing depend on the proportion between commodities and money, and that any considerable alteration on either has the same effect, either of heightening or lowering the price.
Seite 135 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions where she is not, It ought not to be sported with.
Seite 278 - The more these refined arts advance, the more sociable men become: nor is it possible, that, when enriched with science, and possessed of a fund of conversation, they should be contented to remain in solitude, or live with their fellow-citizens in that distant manner, which is peculiar to ignorant and barbarous nations. They flock into cities; love to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture.
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