David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and
essayist, was one of the great figures of the European
Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however,
he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of
reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose
arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality,
and who put the rivalrous passions of commercial life at the centre
of his theory of human nature. He believed that the modern world
was in many ways superior to the ancient world, but was acutely
conscious of the threats to peace and progress posed by bigotry,
factionalism, and imperialism. Today Hume's works continue to speak
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historical context, and a thoughtful exposition of Hume's
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who had no disciples and formed no school, but whom no one in his
own time was able to ignore, and who has since become central to
modern philosophy's understanding of itself. Very Short
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