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Hume's Social Philosophy - Human Nature and Commercial Sociability in A Treatise of Human Nature (Hardcover)
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Hume's Social Philosophy - Human Nature and Commercial Sociability in A Treatise of Human Nature (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
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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 selfish motivations of
individuals and their propensity to bond with others in complex and
diverse kinds of social group. Analysis of Book III of the Treatise
and of essays published afterwards shows how the various
individualist and social propensities explored through the passions
are addressed in Hume's theories of justice, morals and politics.
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