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Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy
By (Author) John B. Stewart
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
320.01
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
"The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong," writes John Stewart. "Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles." In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal