Death and Character : Further Reflections on Hume / Annette C. Baier.
Baier, Annette C., author.
2008
B1489 .B34 2008eb
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Title Death and Character : Further Reflections on Hume / Annette C. Baier.
Author Baier, Annette C., author.
ISBN 9780674268913
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674268913
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2008]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (304 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674268913 doi
Call Number B1489 .B34 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 192
Summary Reviewing Annette Baier's 1995 work Moral Prejudices in the London Review of Books, Richard Rorty predicted that her work would be read hundreds of years hence; Baier's subsequent work has borne out such expectations, and this new book further extends her reach. Here she goes beyond her earlier work on David Hume to reflect on a topic that links his philosophy to questions of immediate relevance-in particular, questions about what character is and how it shapes our lives. Ranging widely in Hume's works, Baier considers his views on character, desirable character traits, his treatment of historical characters, and his own character as shown not just by his cheerful death-and what he chose to read shortly before it-but also by changes in his writings, especially his repudiation of the celebrated A Treatise on Human Nature. She offers new insight into the Treatise and its relation to the works in which Hume "cast anew" the material in its three books. Her reading radically revises the received interpretation of Hume's epistemology and, in particular, philosophy of mind.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
I EASY AND OBVIOUS
1 Acting in Character
2 Impersonation, the Very Idea
3 Hume's Excellent Hypocrites
4 Hume's Treatment of Oliver Cromwell
5 Hume and the Conformity of Bishop Tunstal
6 Hume's Deathbed Reading: A Tale of Three Letters
II MORE DIFFICULT AND ABSTRUSE
7 Hume's Impressions and His Other Metaphors
8 The Life and Mortality of the Mind
9 Hume's Labyrinth
10 A Voice, as from the Next Room
11 The Energy in the Cause
12 Hume's Post-Impressionism
13 Why Hume Asked Us Not to Read the Treatise
Conclusion Hume's Curriculum Vitae: His "Own Life," Written by Himself
Index of Persons
Subject Index

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