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"A courageous and valuable attempt to see Hume whole-to see the unity and consistency in his broad-ranging work as a philosopher, political analyst, economist, historian, and critic of religion."-David Fate Norton, McGill University and the University of Victoria, Co-General Editor of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume In his seminal Philosophy of David Hume (1941), Norman Kemp Smith called for a study of Hume "in all his manifold activities: as philosopher, as political theorist, as economist, as historian, and as man of letters," indicating that "Hume's philosophy, as the attitude of mind that found for itself these various forms of expression, will then have been presented, adequately and in due perspective, for the first time." Claudia Schmidt seeks to address this long-standing need in Hume scholarship. Against the charges that Hume holds no consistent philosophical position, offers no constructive account of rationality, and sees no positive relation between philosophy and other areas of inquiry, Schmidt argues for the overall coherence of Hume's thought as a study of "reason in history." She develops this interpretation by tracing Hume's constructive account

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Author

Claudia M. Schmidt

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271031545

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Historical Fiction