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The Social Background of Hume's Science of Human Nature

In D. F. Norton, N. Capaldi & W. Robison (eds.), McGill Hume Studies. Austin Hill Press (1979)

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  1. Hume on manners and the civil condition.Peter Johnson - 1998 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (2):209 – 222.
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  • Hutcheson's Contentious Sense of Honour.Bihotz Barrenechea - 2021 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 19 (2):145-163.
    The moral sense is at the heart of Hutcheson's system. Its prominent role in this philosopher's morals and posterior commentary eclipses the rest of the senses, but there is at least one sense that deserves more attention in scholarship: the sense of honour. The reason the sense of honour, and its subordination to the moral sense, is attention-worthy is that it combats Mandeville's idea of honour as artifice. First, I flesh out the tension between pride and the moral sense and (...)
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  • Hume's Touchstone and the Politics of Meaningful Discourse.Wilfried Backhaus - 1996 - Dialogue 35 (4):651-676.
    In this paper I propose we read David Hume's view of meaningful discourse, or his theory of meaning, as an aspect of his theory of politics. I will argue that readings which ignore the political dimension are incomplete and distort Hume's position. When I use the word ‘political’ in the Humean context, however, it means something similar to what we mean by the term ‘social’; in the Humean context ‘politics’ is inclusive of the narrow sense taken by political science in (...)
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