David Hume

by Bongie, Laurence L.

• ISBN13: 9780865972087
• ISBN10: 0865972087
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

Summary

Though Edmund Burke is usually identified as the first to articulate the principles of a modern conservative political tradition, he was actually preceded by a Scotsman who is better known for espousing a brilliant concept of scepticism. David Hume was undoubtedly the eighteenth-century British writer whose works were most widely known and acclaimed on the Continent during the later Enlightenment period. Hume's impact [in France] was of undeniable importance, greater even for a time than the related influence of Burke, although it represents a contribution to French counter-revolutionary thought which, unlike that of Burke, has been almost totally ignored by historians to this day.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface To The Liberty Fund Edition	xi
Introduction	xiii
I. Before 1789
Royal Panegyrics	1	(1)
The Science And Art Of English History	2	(8)
Jehovah Among The Hebrews	10	(5)
Papist Or Pyrrhonian?	15	(20)
The Scottish Bossuet	35	(19)
Debate With Turgot	54	(6)
Early Hostility: Mirabeau, Mably, And Brissot	60	(5)
Defence And Defiance	65	(10)
Anticipating The Storm	75	(4)
II. The Revolution and the Role of History
History As A Weapon Of Counter-Revolution	79	(14)
History As The Superstition Of Slaves	93	(10)
III. From 1789 to the Trial of Louis XVI
Prophetic Parallels And The Counter-Revolutionary Lessons Of Hume	103	(20)
The Long Parliament: Brissot Versus Clermont-Tonnerre	123	(9)
A Republican Antidote: Catherine Macaulay-Graham	132	(9)
IV. The Trial of ``Le Stuart Francais''
Louis XVI And Charles I: A Condemned King's Meditations	141	(8)
David Hume And Stuart History For The Defence	149	(7)
Cromwell In The Convention: The Judgement Of Posterity	156	(9)
The Parallel Rejected: Brutus To The Rescue	165	(6)
Principles Versus Precedents	171	(6)
V. The Aftermath
Republican Qualms	177	(9)
Waiting For General Monk	186	(10)
Conclusion	196	(7)
Index Of Names And Titles	203