David Hume, Spinozist

Abstract

As Spinoza chose his mode of presentation to exhibit the sort of controlling reason whose ability to know nature and guide human nature his axioms, postulates, theorems, corollaries, and scholia try to establish, so Hume also chooses his manner of presentation to exhibit the sort of intellectually curious, historically aware, imaginative, and sympathetic reflection on human nature that is more theorerical works elevate to a position of authority in our thinking, feeling, and acting

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