 | T. K. Sarkar, Robert Mailloux, Arthur A. Oliner, Magdalena Salazar-Palma, Dipak L. Sengupta - 2006 - 683 pages
...real Was, there is only Is. Mankind is so much the same, in all times and places, that history inform us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its...constant and universal principles of human nature. and ending in Aristotle (384-322 BC), the Greek philosopher: If you would understand anything, observe... | |
 | Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - 2006 - 944 pages
...(1748). Some stress his failure to admit historical and cultural variability in statements such as: 'Mankind are so much the same in all times and places,...that history informs us of nothing new or strange.' Others call attention to his qualifications: 'We must not, however, expect that ... all men, in the... | |
 | Murray Rae - 2005 - 182 pages
...course 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, that history informs of nothing new or 10. Spinoza, Tractatus, vii, p. 142. 11. Spinoza, Tractatus, vii, p. 154. 12. See... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 pages
...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to from the need to apply the } h ...Incorporated"- Adler Jonathan Eric" Jonathan Eric Adler( showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations and furnishing us with materials from... | |
 | Stephen Buckle - 2007 - 223 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, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from... | |
 | W. David Clinton - 2007 - 272 pages
...understanding of which allows him to speak of reducing politics to a science through the study of history: "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... | |
 | Aubrey Neal - 2007 - 330 pages
...same condition "false consciousness." Hume put the substance of the matter for him in two sentences: Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.11 Human nature was Hume's bottom line. The poets and historians of the next century would revel... | |
 | J. David Hoeveler - 2007 - 404 pages
...To Hume, history did not disclose any dramatic trajectory or regulating cycles. "Mankind," he wrote, "are so much the same, in all times and places, that...discover the constant and universal principles of human nature."71 The Scottish affiliation somewhat removed Madison from both the Lockean and republican models... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 pages
...The same motives always produce the same actions: The same events follow from the same causes. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular" (Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity," in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1748], 55). 31. Jefferson... | |
 | David Hume - 356 pages
...would appear that he thought the uniformity in man's basic structural characteristics to be so marked that "history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular", 1 which in his terms would mean that propositions concerning them would be "proofs" or "entirely free... | |
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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... 
