Hume on Wilkes and Liberty: Two Possible Contributions to The London Chronicle

Raynor, David

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“…22 Both maxims in Hume derive from qualified theoretical generalizations, the liberty maxim from a theory of spontaneous order and the usefulness of economic liberty, the status quo maxim from a 21 Hume articulates a similar logic at H 1.169 where he contrasts the "seeming liberty or rather licentiousness of the Anglo-Saxons" with "true liberty". These general sensibilities are echoed in his attitude towards the radical populist "Wilkes and Liberty" movement in his own time (Raynor 1980). For an elaboration of Hume's conception of "true liberty" and its relation to political authority, see Klein and Matson (forthcoming).…”

Section: VIII Liberty and Status Quo In Conversationmentioning

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Reason and Political Economy in Hume

Matson

2019

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This paper examines some connections between Hume’s epistemology in his Treatise of Human Nature and his political economy. I make three claims: (1) First, I argue that it is the development of Hume’s account of the faculty of reason in Book I of the Treatise that leads him to emphasize social science—including political economy—and the humanities over more abstract modes of intellectual inquiry. (2) Second, I argue that Hume’s conception of reason has implications for his methodology in political economy. His perception of human reason leads him to deploy a method of qualified generalization that emphasizes the by-and-large nature of theoretical statements. (3) Third, when it comes to policy matters, the method of qualified generalization in theory cashes out in terms of practical maxims. I suggest that two central maxims in Hume’s political economy derive from his views of the usefulness of economic liberty and the coordinating nature of the status quo.

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Section: VIII Liberty and Status Quo In Conversationmentioning

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Reason and Political Economy in Hume

Matson

2019

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David Hume in Chicago: A Twentieth-Century Hoax

Waldmann¹

2020

J. Br. Stud.

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This article alleges that two letters attributed to the philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) were forged in the twentieth century. The letters were first published in 1972 and 1973 by Michael Morrisroe, an assistant professor of English in the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, after which they became monuments of conventional scholarship on Hume's life and writings. Both letters are cited without qualification by scholars of Hume's thought in dozens of publications, including Ernest Campbell Mossner's celebrated Life of David Hume (1980), and John Robertson's entry for Hume in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). This article reconstructs the history and transmission of Hume's extant letters and attempts to account for why the forgeries published by Morrisroe were accepted as genuine. It makes a systematic case against the authenticity of the letters, and focuses in particular on the question of whether Hume met the Jansenist homme de lettres Noël-Antoine Pluche (1688–1761) and had access to his library, in Reims, in 1734. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the exposé for modern editorial scholarship and intellectual history.

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The Hume Literature for 1981

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1982

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Hume on Wilkes and Liberty: Two Possible Contributions to The London Chronicle

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Reason and Political Economy in Hume

Reason and Political Economy in Hume

David Hume in Chicago: A Twentieth-Century Hoax

The Hume Literature for 1981

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