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In Hume's Social Philosophy, Christopher J Finlay presents a highly original and engaging reading of David Hume's landmark text, A Treatise of Human Nature, and political writings published immediately after it, articulating a unified view of his theory of human nature in society and his political philosophy. The book explores the hitherto neglected social contexts within which Hume's ideas were conceived. While a great deal of attention has previously been given to Hume's intellectual and literary contexts, important connections can also be made between the fundamentals of Hume's philosophy and the social world in which it was developed.**Finlay argues that Hume's unified theory of human nature, conceived in terms of passions, reason and sociability, was meant to account for human nature in its most articulate manifestations, in the commercial and 'polite' social contexts of eighteenth-century Europe. Through careful exegetical study of Hume's analysis of reasoning and the passions, Finlay explores the diverse aspects of sociability which the__Treatise of Human Nature__invokes. In particular, this study finds in the__Treatise__an important exploration of the tensions between the s

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Author

CHRISTOPHER (CHRISTOPHER J.) FINLAY

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826491626

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Western