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Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects book cover

1st Edition

Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries Enlightenment Projects

By Frederick G. Whelan
480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on the middle and later decades of the eighteenth century and hence on what is usually taken to be the core... Read more

Selected Contents: Volume 1 1. Property as Artifice: Hume and Blackstone 2. Hume and Contractarianism 3. The Place of Contract in Burke’s Political Theory 4. Grotian Resistance Theory from Hume to Burke 5. Time, Revolution, and Prescriptive Right in Hume’s Theory of Government 6. Church Establishments, Liberty, and Competition in Religion 7. Vattel’s Doctrine of the State 8. Robertson, Hume, and the Balance of Power 9. Hume on the Laws of Nations, Chastity, and Double Standards 10. "Contrary Effects" and the Reverse Invisible Hand in Hume and Smith 11. Population and Ideology in the Enlightenment Conclusion Volume 2 1.Vattel’s Doctrine of the State 2. Robertson, Hume, and the Balance of Power 3. Hume on the Laws of Nations, Chastity, and Double Standards 4. " Contrary Effects" and the Reverse Invisible Hand in Hume and Smith 5. Population and Ideology in the Enlightenment 6. Explaining Imperial Decline in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Thought

Biography

Frederick G. Whelan

"Although a diverse collection, these essays do establish Whelan's claim that ideas other than those of the classical liberals and philosophes have Enlightenment importance."

--R. Heineman, Alfred University

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