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Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought
Although Hume and Johnson told profoundly different views of religion, their political thinking has much in common. Their reformist thought differs radically from what might be called the transformist thought of Marat, who hoped the French would become disinterested citizens whose civil religion was patriotism.".
Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional: philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy. Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism (often neglected by modern scholars) was an extensively thought out response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. Damrosch finds strong affinities between writers who are usually described as an...
Hume, Holism, and Miracles
David Johnson seeks to overthrow one of the widely accepted tenets of Anglo-American philosophy—that of the success of the Humean case against the rational credibility of reports of miracles. In a manner unattempted in any other single work, he meticulously examines all the main variants of Humean reasoning on the topic of miracles: Hume's own argument and its reconstructions by John Stuart Mill, J. L. Mackie, Antony Flew, Jordan Howard Sobel, and others.Hume's view, set forth in his essay "Of Miracles," has been widely thought to be correct. Johnson reviews Hume's thesis with clarity and elegance and considers the arguments of some of the most prominent defenders of Hume's case against miracles. According to Johnson, the Humean argument on this topic is entirely without merit, its purported cogency being simply a philosophical myth.
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Brand You! Reinvent Yourself, Redefine Your Future: A 5-Step Guide to Building Your Personal Brand
Who are you and what do you bring to the table? In a fiercely competitive job market, the ability to define your core strengths, passions and talents and leverage these assets to your advantage is the key to reaching your career goals and achieving professional success. The most effective and potent way to do this is to discover your personal brand. Brand YOU!: Reinvent Yourself, Redefine Your Future is your blueprint for building your personal brand. In Brand YOU!, Hume Johnson offers you a 5-step guide to help you: - define the key variables that shape your image - discover your unique value - create a compelling personal brand and, - communicate your brand offline and online with confidence, clarity and credibility. With engaging discussions and practical exercises and guidelines, Brand YOU! gives you the tools to reimagine your professional identity, position yourself as an expert in your field and build a career that is based on your skills and unique talents, and where you show up as your authentic self.
Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: Part 2
This work is the last in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
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