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The Ironic Hume

By: John Valdimir Price

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Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind immediately perceives. Author John Valdimir Price contends that an understanding of Hume's writings cannot be separated from an understanding of his life. By examining the works of Hume, Price shows the way in which an ironic way of seeing events and an ironic mode of expression permeated Hume's life and writings. Price examines Hume's irony as it is exhibited in letters to his friends and in his writings concerned with morality, people, philosophy, politics, history, and above all religion. Hume's opinions on life in general are stated in works ranging from the Treatise of Human Nature and the Essays, Moral and Political, through the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding and the Enquiry concerning Principles of Morals, to the Dialogue and Four Dissertations of his maturity. Price feels that Hume's recognition of the ironic in life came about from his perception of the disproportion between human hopes and human accomplishments. The rhetorical consequences of applying reason to a duality in human nature creates the ironic mode. Hume conceived man's opposing tendencies as his willingness to commit himself orally to a concept, a dogma, an idea, or an ideology, and his unwillingness to involve himself in the logical and rhetorical implications of articulating those principles. Hume's use of the ironic mode in his writings provides him with a means of challenging certain dogmatic assumptions common to thought, particularly to traditional religious thought; it acts as a mask for his sceptical intentions, and it is an implied criticism of many ideas. In his political writing, Hume frequently implied that the question under argument was almost too ridiculous to deserve serious treatment. This tactic was effectively employed in the Account of Stewart, in which Hume came to the defense of a friend. In his most profitable venture, the History of England, Hume not only used irony to advantage, but developed a new approach to the writing of history—the use of narrative. He presented history as a series of more or less connected events, not as a series of "right" or "wrong" attitudes. The author believes that Hume's initial religious scepticism, combined with the predominant satiric-ironic mode in the literature of his time, led him to seek irony as a method of self expression. This scepticism, which permeated all of Hume's attitudes toward life, reached its most complete expression in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, which accepted reason as its guide, but also accepted experience as its master.

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David Hume

By: John Valdimir Price

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David Hume

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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of David Hume.

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Boston : Twayne Publishers

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0805770046

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Foundations of Literary Theory

The Nineteenth Century

By: E S Dallas,John Price

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Foundations of Literary Theory

The Nineteenth Century

By: E S Dallas,John Price

The outburst of literary theory in the 18th century was instrumental in establishing it in the 19th century as an area of intellectual activity. These reprinted texts represent the emergence of literary theory as a new branch of literature.

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Psychology Press

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0415118751

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The Ironic Hume

By: John Valdimir Price

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Gold, Prices and Wages - With an Examination of the Quantity Theory

By: John Atkinson Hobson

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Gold, Prices and Wages - With an Examination of the Quantity Theory

By: John Atkinson Hobson

John Atkinson Hobson (1858 - 1940) was an English social scientist and economist most famous for his work on imperialism-which notably had an influence on Vladimir Lenin-as well as his theory of underconsumption. His early work also questioned the classical theory of rent and predicted the Neoclassical "marginal productivity" theory of distribution. First published in 1913, Hobson's treatise "Gold, Prices and Wages" is a fascinating exploration of economics that examines the role of gold and its relationship the contemporary rising price of commodities. Contents include: "The Rise of Prices", "The Price Problem. Quantity of Money", "Fold and Prices", "The Basis of Credit", "Retardation of the Supply of Goods", "The Distribution of Wealth", and "The Theory of Money and Prices". This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in economics, and especially the economic situation in Europe before World War I. Other notable works by this author include: "Evolution of Modern Capitalism" (1894), "Problem of the Unemployed" (1896), and "John Ruskin: Social Reformer" (1898). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an essay from "On Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" by David Ricardo.

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The Ironic Hume

The Ironic Hume

David Hume

David Hume

Foundations of Literary Theory

Foundations of Literary Theory

The Ironic Hume

The Ironic Hume

Gold, Prices and Wages - With an Examination of the Quantity Theory

Gold, Prices and Wages - With an Examination of the Quantity Theory

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