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David Hume : The Philosopher as Historian, Paperback / softback Book

David Hume : The Philosopher as Historian Paperback / softback

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'A skilful and lucid study ... Hume's History has been unjustly neglected at the expense of his philosophy.

Phillipson's book should help redress the balance' London Review of Books'For pray, what is the End of Man?

Is he created for Happiness or for Virtue? For this Life or for the next? For himself or for his Maker?'A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English.

He was also a brilliant historian. Nicholas Phillipson's succinct study shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics.

As a philosopher, Hume sought a way of seeing the world and pursuing happiness independently of a belief in God.

His groundbreaking approach applied the same outlook to Britain's history, showing how the past was shaped solely through human choices and actions. In this account of Hume's life and works, from his university days in Edinburgh to the rapturous reception of his History of England, Nicholas Phillipson reveals the gradual process by which one of the greatest Western philosophers turned himself into one of the greatest historians of Britain.

In doing so, he shows us how revolutionary Hume was, and why his ideas still matter today.

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