The Pragmatic Enlightenment
Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire
Gebonden Engels 2013 1e druk 9781107045002Samenvatting
This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the 'pragmatic Enlightenment'.
He defends this strand of Enlightenment thought against both the Enlightenment's critics and some of the more idealistic Enlightenment figures who tend to have more followers today, such as John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham. Professor Rasmussen argues that Hume, Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire exemplify an especially attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Part I. Hegemonic Universalism?
1. Morality in context
2. Pragmatic liberalism
Part II. Blind Faith in Reason?
3. The age of the limits of reason
4. The perils of political rationalism
Part III. Atomistic Individualism?
5. The social and encumbered self
6. Negative liberty for a positive community
Conclusion.
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