Moral judgments in history: Hume's position

Hume Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 339-367

  Wertz, S K ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (34)

1. R. F. Atkinson, Knowledge and Explanation in History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978), ch. VI, sec. 3. Cited parenthetically in text as "Atkinson."
2. Herbert Butterfield, "Moral Judgments in History," in his History and Human Relations (New York: Macmillan, 1951/52), 101-130; reprinted in The Philosophy of History in Our Time: An Anthology, edited by Hans Meyerhoff (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 228-249. Cited parenthetically in text as "Butterfield."
3. Adrian Oldfield, "Moral Judgments in History," History and Theory 20.3 (1981): 260-277. Cited parenthetically in text as "Oldfield."
4. Lord Acton, Lectures on Modem History (London: Macmillan, 1906, 1960), and Historical Essays and Studies (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1907, 1967)
5. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (London: Oxford University Press, 1946)
6. EHU Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the EPM Principles of Morals, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd ed. Revised by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).
7. H The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688, edited by William B. Todd, 6 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1983-85), references to page numbers and volume.
8. T A Treatise of Human Nature, analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge, with text revised and notes by P. H. Nidditch, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978); contains the Abstract of the Treatise; references to Book, Part, and Section.
9. David Wootten, "David Hume, 'the historian," in The Cambridge Companion to Hume, edited by David Fate Norton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 281-312, esp. 283ff.
10. James Farr, "Hume, Hermeneutics, and History: A 'Sympathetic' Account," History and Theory 17.3 (1978): 285-310
11. Humean Explanations in the Moral Sciences," Inquiry 25 1 (March 1982 57-80.
12. Flume adopted this term from Shaftesbury's Characteristics (London, 1711), II, 307, 412
13. John Laird, in Hume's Philosophy of Human Nature (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1932/1967), 197, is one of the few commentators to mention presensation in Hume's account of sympathy (in ch. VII).
14. The Principles of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1938/1958), Book Two.
15. Donald C. Ainslie's important study, especially his discussion of National Character, in "The Problems of the National Self in Hume's Theory of Justice," Home Studies 21.2 (November 1995): 289-3 13, esp. 295ff, in the context of recent political philosophy.
16. J.Y.T. Greig, David Home (London: Jonathan Cape, 1931), 268-269.
17. J. C. Hilson, " Hume: The Historian as Man of Feeling," in Augustan Worlds: New Essays in Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited byJ. C. Hilson, M.M.B. Jones, andJ. R. Watson (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1978), 205-222; 218-19.
18. Arthur Danto's, who in Narration and Knowledge (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), ch. VIII, gives this characterization: "Commonly they take the past tense, and...they refer to at least two time-separated events though they only describe (are only about) the earliest event to which they refer" (143).
19. David L. Hull, "In Defense of Presentism," History and Theory 17.1 (1979): 1-15
20. Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (New York: Henry Holt, 1938), 230-239; reprinted in The Philosophy of History in Our Time, 163-172.
21. Terrence Murphy's study, "Lord Acton and the Question of Moral Judgments in History: The Development of His Position," The Catholic Historical Review 70.2 (April 1984): 225-250.
22. G. M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England (Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1942/1959), 213.
23. Charles M. Gray, Renaissance and Reformation England: 1509-1714 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973), 30.
24. Sir Isaiah Berlin, "Historical Inevitability" (1954), reprinted in The Philosophy of History in Our Time, 271.
25. Adam Potkay, The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Home (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)
26. M. A. Box's review in Hume Studies 21.2 (November 1995): 333-339
27. Sigmund Freud, "The Moses of Michelangelo" (1914), in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1955), XIII, 212.
28. Wilhelm Dilthey, Pattern and Meaning in History: Thoughts on History and Society, edited by H. P. Rickman (New York: Harper and Row, 1961), 139-140
29. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979)
30. Nicholas Capaldi, in "Hume as Social Scientist," Review ofMetaphysics 32 (1978): 99-123
31. Donald W. Livingston, "Hume on the Problem of Historical and Scientific Explanation," The New Scholasticism 47.1 (Winter 1973): 38-67
32. Simon Evnine's study, "Hume, Conjectural History, and the UnifOrmity of Human Nature," Journal of the History of Philosophy 31(1993): 589-606.
33. John J. Jenkins, "Hume's Account of Sympathy-Some Difficulties," in Philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, edited by Vincent Hope (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984), 91-104.
34. Donald W. Livingston (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990), 25-52