...This chapter looks into Adam Smith's political thoughts influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Bernard Mandeville. It mentions Smith's intellectual context in 1750 when reviewing Rousseau's Second Discourse and publishing the Theory of Moral Sentiments...

...This chapter offers an interpretation of David Hume's body of work as simultaneously sensitive to how uncertainty and risk can enervate commercial actors and committed to emboldening these actors to take more risks. Hume's writings on passion, cognition, politics, and commerce reveal an apt...

... in the Arts” Hume Waldron Jeremy liberal arts virtue s idealism Smith Adam Baier Annette Hardin Russell Hobbes Thomas laicism natural law coordination common interests politics perfect government David Hume But government extends farther its beneficial influence; and not contented to protect...

...This chapter examines how David Hume developed a thoroughly anti-Hobbesian theory of politics, culminating in a theory of the state without sovereignty. Hume does not explain political obligation in terms of what rulers are justified in expecting from the ruled, by virtue of the particular kind...

...This chapter examines Adam Smith's political theory of opinion in relation to the contributions of David Hume and, to a lesser extent, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, regarding sociability and the state. More specifically, it explores how Smith's development of Hume's alternative theoretic framework...

...What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's underappreciated contributions to the history of political thought, this book considers how, following...

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... Forbes Duncan David Hume fundamental conventions private law public law alteration political power social change constitutionalism Nor is the rule concerning the stability of possession the less derived from human conventions, that it arises gradually, and acquires force by a slow progression...

...This chapter focuses on Pliny's ideas about invention and innovation, the foundations of sustained growth. It starts from David Hume's observation in 1742 that “it is more easy to account for the rise and progress of commerce in any kingdom, than for that of learning.” Pliny generalizes about...

...This chapter considers the conventions and norms proposed by David Hume. It examines game-theoretic approaches to strategic interaction to distinguish between coordination and cooperation. Some of the reasons why states want to enter into lasting agreements with other states range between...

..., and international cooperation. It elaborates on David Hume's account of legitimate authority, which is an extension of his genealogy of institutionalized norms. Beitz Charles Smith Adam Williams Bernard jealousy liberalism of fear Kennan George morality and international relations relativism of distance...

..., and several forms of Early Buddhism. It then shows the influence that Pyrrho's brand of scepticism had on the evolution of Western thought, first in Antiquity, and later, during the Enlightenment, on the great philosopher and self-proclaimed Pyrrhonian, David Hume....

...This chapter examines the role of history and the family in debates over human sociability and the foundations of politics, drawing attention to how David Hume was able to revolutionize the use of state-of-nature conjectures in order to elucidate the emergence of institutional structures...

... and François de La Rochefoucauld. It also describes the transformation of moderation from a predominantly ethical concept into a prominent political virtue. Finally, it explores the views of authors such as David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on fanaticism in relation to moderation. Aristotle balance Clor...

...This chapter examines David Hume's two definitions of cause in the context of quantitative and qualitative research. The two definitions can be found in Hume's quotation from Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, and Concerning the Principles of Morals: “We may define a cause...

...This chapter turns to the supposedly anti-idealistic implications of the “circumstances of justice” as understood especially in Hume and Rawls. David Hume influentially argued that humans would never have developed the idea of justice at all if it were not for certain contingent but prevalent...

... Renaissance, the problem once again revolutionized Western thought and shifted the central focus of philosophy to epistemology. Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) is responsible for what may be called the problem's modern incarnation, known today as the “Problem of Induction.” This chapter analyzes...

...This introductory chapter discusses how David Hume's political ideas shed light on a host of questions in political theory, political science, and practical politics that would otherwise seem intractable. Aspects of Hume's work that might seem either hard to understand or of questionable modern...

... monarchy romanticism idealism morality utopianism “Of the First Principles of Government” Hume Waldron Jeremy coordination theory convention political theorists formal theory David Hume politics government Edgar … like a true politician, concurred with the prevailing party. —Hume...

... Runciman David Vieira Monica Brito Wilkes John cooperation Napoleonic Code coordination citizen allegiance governmental authority political power David Hume legitimate rebellion emergency powers There are things which exist and facts which hold only if the relevant individuals believe...