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The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics

Conservatives are above all else suspicious that abstract reason can debunk centuries of experience: a utopia on paper is doomed to turn out ...

Oakeshott and Liberalism - Hungarian Conservative

Rationalism does not liberate people, but narrows and limits the freedom inherent in human action.16 While liberals specifically base political ...

View of Hume on Church Establishments, Secular Politics and History

In the third volume of the History of England, David Hume considers the political ramifications of the Protestant reformation with a “Digression concerning the ...

Hume Studies Christopher J. Berry. David Hume. New York

Despite accepting this, Berry claims that overall Hume is not a conservative philosopher. The focal point of Berry's argument is Hume's criticism of ...

An Evaluation of Hume's Moral and Political Philosophy Victor ...

Abstract. One fundamental problem or shortcomings with Hume's moral and political theory is that it is too conservatism; it has not been able to grasp the ...

David Hume's Classical Liberalism | National Review

Does David Hume, a classic proponent of classical liberalism, still have something to say to us? Today classical liberalism is (along with ...

Essays Moral, Political and Literary (1741-58) | Constitution Center

Thomas Jefferson called Hume “a degenerate son of science.” James Madison claimed he was a “bungling lawgiver.” And John Adams accused him of being an “atheist, ...

Science and superstition: Hume and conservatism | Semantic Scholar

This article argues that to call Hume a conservative is a shorthand label that is at least insecure and at most a distortion. It is not claimed that the ...

Skepticism in Hume's Politics and Histories - Redalyc

In political thinking, just as in natural science and metaphysics, Hume resists philosophical posits not grounded in experience or common life that would ...

Hazony on Liberal and Conservative Premises - Econlib

And because Locke is often regarded as the lodestar of the liberal tradition, by Hazony's lights, neither Smith nor Hume would be classed as ...

5. Hume and Reform: Discovering True Principles - De Gruyter

The answer most scholars give seems to be, "No; given his skepticism about reason and his consequent dependence on experience, Hume has no escape from ...

The Conservative of the Spontaneous Order

As a political philosophy, libertarianism's fundamental principle is that no political ... Hume's (1912, app. 1) idea that “morality is ...

Mick Hume - | The European Conservative

No, Trump's Win Is Not a “Nightmare” for Europeans. U.S. election result marks a new high point in the democratic revolt against Western elites. Mick Hume.

Brit Hume - Wikipedia

... Hume, is an American journalist and political commentator. ... Hume is a conservative, remarking in 2006: "Sure, I'm a conservative, no doubt about it.

Hume's Political Thought - Political Science - Oxford Bibliographies

In Hume's time, factions within the Kirk (Church of Scotland) competed for control of that institution and the social and political power it ...

David Hume's Politics - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Political freedom is legitimate as a liberal value and it does not conflict with Hume's ... Hume's political philosophy is by no means conservative. Christian ...

The "Progress of the Sentiments" in Hume's Political Philosophy

HUME'S THEORY OF MORALITY. 2.1 Sympathy and Human Nature. Hume argues that our moral distinctions are not originally produced by reason. He contends that the ...

Is Hume's Principle Analytic? - Project Euclid

A principle, or set of principles, is conservative with respect to a given theory when, roughly, its ad- dition to that theory results in no new theorems about ...

The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume

Though Hume's answer to both questions is a resounding 'no' (civic virtue and full exercise of citizenship is possible only in warlike and ...

Science and superstition: Hume and conservatism - Sage Journals

Abstract. This article argues that to call Hume a conservative is a shorthand label that is at least insecure and at most a distortion. It is not claimed ...