Death and Character Further Reflections on Hume

Name: Death and Character Further Reflections on Hume
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ISBN: 9780674030909

ISBN-10: 0674030907

ISBN-13: 9780674030909

Edition: 2008

Authors: Annette C. Baier, Annette C. Baier

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Reviewing Annette Baierrsquo;s 1995 work Moral Prejudices in the London Review of Books, Richard Rorty predicted that her work would be read hundreds of years hence; Baierrsquo;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 Humersquo;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…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.49" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Annette C. Baier was Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, at the University of Pittsburgh. She also taught at the philosophy department of the University of Otago in New Zealand.



Preface


List of Abbreviations



Easy and Obvious



Acting in Character



Impersonation, the Very Idea



Hume's Excellent Hypocrites



Hume's Treatment of Oliver Cromwell



Hume and the Conformity of Bishop Tunstal



Hume's Deathbed Reading: A Tale of Three Letters



More Difficult and Abstruse



Hume's Impressions and His Other Metaphors



The Life and Mortality of the Mind



Hume's Labyrinth



A Voice, as from the Next Room



The Energy in the Cause



Hume's Post-Impressionism



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