 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 pages
...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times...constant and universal principles of human nature. (E VIII. i. 65; 83) This passage has been widely misinterpreted as a dismissal of cultural difference.... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 pages
...(transcendental pretence': 5 'human nature remains still the same in its principles and operations . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations' (Enquiry, section VIII, part 1). In effect,... | |
 | Jos de Mul - 2004 - 472 pages
...characterized by a rather static notion of it. In his Inquiries Concerning Human Understanding\\\ime states: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature" (Hume 1975, 83). In post-Kantian philosophy, however, the notion that human reason has a universal... | |
 | Frederick G. Whelan - 2004 - 440 pages
...of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English: . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature. (Enq 83) Hume argues that one can make inferences about human motivation from modern to ancient cases,... | |
 | Marshall Sahlins - 2004 - 349 pages
..."in all nations and ages . . . human nature remains the same in its principles and operations. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...that history informs us of nothing new or strange on this particular" (1975: 83). One might fairly judge from this that Thucydides was the end as well... | |
 | John Stephen Morrill, John Morrill - 2004 - 236 pages
...humanity, actually was and is. In writing about humanity, most of us, I suspect, follow David Hume: 'Mankind are so much the same in all times and places, that history informs of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal... | |
 | F. R. Ankersmit - 2005 - 510 pages
...nations and ages, and that human nature still remains the same, in its principles and operations. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from... | |
 | Simon Blackburn - 2005 - 272 pages
...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times...history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular.13 At first blush this well supports the charge of provinciality, but further acquaintance... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...of the French and English. You can transfer most of the observations you have made of the former to the latter. Mankind are so much the same in all times and places. Should a traveller, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men who were entirely divested... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 790 pages
...produce the same actions: The same events follow from the same causes.' A few sentences later Hume added: 'Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations. . . ,'22 Hume's view, of human uniformity,... | |
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Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature... 
