All Posts Tagged With: "Hume"
TGIF: Liberty versus Social Engineering
So David Brooks, the New York Times‘ resident conservative intellectual, must think he’s a pretty clever fellow. In trying to characterize “the choices we face on issue after issue,” he presumes to enlist the aid of philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and David Hume (1711-1776). Considering that Bentham believed human beings could consciously design society and [...]
9Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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