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7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics?

© 2015 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2015 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 3
  4. 1. Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life 17
  5. 2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism 36
  6. 3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics 55
  7. 4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit 83
  8. 5. Obeying the Laws and Customs of the Country: Living in Disorder and Barbarity. The Powerlessness of Political Skepticism According to the Discours sceptiques (1657) of Samuel Sorbière 113
  9. 6. Bernard Mandeville’s Skeptical Political Philosophy 130
  10. 7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? 149
  11. 8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism 177
  12. 9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism 203
  13. 10. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau 227
  14. 11. Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire 240
  15. 12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville 256
  16. 13. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin’s Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany 274
  17. Contributors 287
  18. Index 289
Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This chapter is in the book Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619722-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 3
  4. 1. Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life 17
  5. 2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism 36
  6. 3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics 55
  7. 4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit 83
  8. 5. Obeying the Laws and Customs of the Country: Living in Disorder and Barbarity. The Powerlessness of Political Skepticism According to the Discours sceptiques (1657) of Samuel Sorbière 113
  9. 6. Bernard Mandeville’s Skeptical Political Philosophy 130
  10. 7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? 149
  11. 8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism 177
  12. 9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism 203
  13. 10. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau 227
  14. 11. Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire 240
  15. 12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville 256
  16. 13. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin’s Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany 274
  17. Contributors 287
  18. Index 289
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