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The Concealed Influence of Custom - Hume's Treatise from the Inside Out (Hardcover)
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The Concealed Influence of Custom - Hume's Treatise from the Inside Out (Hardcover)
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Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's
Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the
theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues
that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of
his own understanding of custom, and in particular, without an
appreciation of the grounding of his thought about custom in the
legal theory and debates of his time. Custom is the source of
Hume's thoughts about normativity, not only in ethics and in
political theory, but also in epistemological, linguistics, and
scientific practice- and is the source of his insight that our
psychological and social natures are so inextricably linked. The
centrality of custom and the link between the psychological and the
social are closely connected, which is why Garfield begins with
Book II. There are four interpretative perspectives at work in this
volume: one is a naturalistic skeptical interpretation of Hume's
Treatise; a second is the foregrounding of Book II of the Treatise
as foundational for Books I and III. A third is the consideration
of the Treatise in relation to Hume's philosophical antecedents
(particularly Sextus, Bayle, Hutcheson, Shaftesbury, and
Mandeville), as well as eighteenth century debates about the status
of customary law, with one eye on its sequellae in the work of
Kant, the later Wittgenstein, and in contemporary cognitive
science. The fourth is the Buddhist tradition in which many of the
ideas Hume develops are anticipated and articulated in somewhat
different ways. Garfield presents Hume as a naturalist, a skeptic
and as, above all, a communitarian. In offering this
interpretation, he provides an understanding of the text as a whole
in the context of the literature to which it responded, and in the
context of the literature it inspired.
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