The Skeptical Life in Hume's Political Thought(*).

Polity | September 22, 2000| | Copyright

I. Introduction

David Hume is frequently identified as one of the first modern, "scientific" political philosophers.(1) There is also an extensive literature that reveals him to be a thoroughgoing skeptic.(2) Yet if Hume is indeed a skeptic, how could he be a political scientist? A skeptic is someone who doubts that our rational and sensory faculties are capable of furnishing us with knowledge about God, nature, morality, history, society, or even the mundane details of daily life. The potentially radical consequences of skepticism are illustrated by Diogenes ...

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