Hume and Machiavelli - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume and Machiavelli write by Frederick G. Whelan. This book was released on 2004. Hume and Machiavelli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although there are myriad references to Machiavelli's work within Hume's writing, a deeper connection between the two has never been fully explored. Whelan uncovers extensive Machiavellian dimensions throughout Hume's work, illustrating numerous parallels in both theorists' treatment of such issues as human nature, historical method, and political ethics. While at first such a comparison may be startling, Whelan argues convincingly that Hume's writing, commonly regarded as moderate and amiable, is indeed a locus of realist liberal political theory.
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries write by Frederick G. Whelan. This book was released on 2014-12-05. Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century and hence on what is usually taken to be the core period of the Enlightenment, a somewhat problematic term. Covering topics such as property, contract and resistance theory, religious establishments, the law of nations, the balance of power, demography, and the role of unintended consequences in social life, Frederick G. Whelan convincingly conveys the diversity--and creativity--of the intellectual engagements of even a limited set of Enlightenment thinkers in contrast to dismissive attitudes, in some quarters, toward the Enlightenment and its supposed unitary project. Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2 contains six in-depth studies of eighteenth-century political thought, including both normative issues and examples of Enlightenment social science, including international relations and law, the problem of double standards, political economy, demography, and the causes of imperial decline. The central figure is David Hume, with substantial attention to William Robertson, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Malthus, and others.
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy write by Paul A. Rahe. This book was released on 2005-11-14. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The significance of Machiavelli's political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. In this volume, a distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavelli's own republicanism and charting his influence on Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, David Hume, the Baron de Montesquieu, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. This work argues that while Machiavelli himself was not liberal, he did set the stage for the emergence of liberal republicanism in England. By the exponents of commercial society he provided the foundations for a moderation of commonwealth ideology and exercised considerable, if circumscribed, influence on the statesmen who founded the American Republic. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy will be of great interest to political theorists, early modern historians, and students of the American political tradition.
Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought
Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought write by Saul Jacob Frankel. This book was released on 1952. Machiavelli and Hume as Forerunners of Modern Political Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The writings of Machiavelli and Hume are separated by two and a quarter centuries. There is no doubt that the intellectual climates of Renaissance and Enlightenment, the political problems of Italy and England ~ and the social positions of Machiavelli and Hume were important elements in the formation of their respective philosophies. It is undeniable that certain aspects of their thought can be better understood in terms of the historical context in which they lived. [...]" --
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment write by Thomas W. Merrill. This book was released on 2015-07-23. Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck', David Hume writes in A Treatise of Human Nature, 'has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe'. With these words, Hume begins a memorable depiction of the crisis of philosophy and his turn to moral and political philosophy as the path forward. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas W. Merrill shows how Hume's turn is the core of his thought, linking Hume's metaphysical and philosophical crisis to the moral-political inquiries of his mature thought. Merrill shows how Hume's comparison of himself to Socrates in the introduction to the Treatise illuminates the dramatic structure and argument of the book as a whole, and he traces Hume's underappreciated argument about the political role of philosophy in the Essays.
