When bad things happen from good people (and vice-versa): Hume's political ethics of revolution.(David Hume)

From: Polity | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Sabl, Andrew | Copyright information

David Hume's History of England should be regarded as his most important work of political theory. Although most people (in Hume's time as now) get their main impressions of Hume's political positions from his Essays, the essays' accessibility comes at a price. In their topicality and brevity they often represent little more than summaries and applications of conclusions that Hume sets forth in the History after treatments rich in rigor, scientific understanding, and historical det...

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