书目名称 | Liberty in Hume’s History of England | 编辑 | Nicholas Capaldi (Professor of Philosophy),Donald | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | LIBERTY IN HUME‘S HISTORY OF ENGLAND In his own lifetime, Hume was feted by his admirers as a great historian, and even his enemies conceded that he was a controversial historian with whom one had to reckon. On the other hand, Hume failed to achieve positive recognition for his philosophical views. It was Hume‘s History of England that played an influential role in public policy debate during the eighteenth century in both Great Britain and in the United States. Hume‘s Hist01Y of England passed through seven editions and was beginning to be perceived as a classic before Hume‘s death. Voltaire, as an historian, considered it "perhaps the best ever written in any lan guage. " Gibbon greatly admired Hume‘s work and said, of a letter written by Hume in 1776 praising the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, that a compliment from Hume "overpaid the labor of ten years. " After Hume‘s death on August 20, 1776, the History became a factor in the revolutionary events that began to unfold. Louis XVI was a close student of Hume‘s History, and his valet records that, upon having learned that the Convention had voted the death penalty, the King asked for the volume in Hume‘s History covering | 出版日期 | Book 1990 | 关键词 | David Hume; English; concept; economic development; freedom; history; history of literature; liberty; morali | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0535-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-6727-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-0535-1Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 | issn_series | 0066-6610 | copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990 |
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