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[00:39:25] Jeffrey Rosen: Describe Hume's influence on Hamilton in this Federalist piece. Broadly why it was that Hamilton thought that Hume's defense of a strong monarch who was able to bring the House of Lords rather the House of Commons over to his side by giving them offices and emoluments. He was fond of the philosophic superstition that there are natural rights independent of inherited social condition, a doctrine exploded by Hume in an essay entitled “Of the Original Contract.” Jefferson proudly wrote these into the Declaration of Independence. David Hume, who died in the same year as the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed, argued that, although justification required citing history and general principles, the primary motivation for action was passion or sentiment. “Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to Will's more extravagant claims and taking a more moderate position regarding Hume's influence). For an indication of the older view of Locke, see the Editor's Introduction, DAVID HUME, HUME'S MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY xiv, xlii (Henry D. Aiken, ed. 1948, Haffner Library of Classics) (hereinafter cited as "AIKEN") ("In America, On the contrary, Hume reasoned that they both came from the human senses, from what he called ideas and impressions. Hume's distinction between "synthetic" and "analytic" truths provided inspiration for the concept of "self-evident" truths in the Declaration of Independence. The reverence with which the original parchment is preserved and displayed can be seen through the National Archives’ documentation of the Declaration of Independence, which provides both historical context and access to the full text of this foundational document. The Declaration’s influence extended far beyond American borders. David Hume’s thought shaped and directed the later Enlightenment’s radically skeptical epistemological development, advancing more slowly than Locke’s impact on America, and with the practical effects of his thought delayed by decades and centuries. 1 Hume's Works in Colonial and Early Revolutionary America 2 Historiographical Context for Hume's Reception in Eighteenth-Century America 4 Hume's Impact on the Prelude to American Independence 7 Was Hume a Liability in Late Eighteenth-Century America? 9 The Reception of Hume's Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century America The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America Thomas Jefferson,2022-09-16 DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America by Thomas Jefferson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Both of these documents — the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the American Declaration of Independence —, as well as numerous state constitutions, Revolutionary-era pamphlets, and the “american mind” as Jefferson put it, were heavily influenced by a period in history called the Enlightenment. We may therefore give to this influence what name we please; we may call it by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence; but some degree and some kind of it are inseparable from the very nature of the constitution and necessary to the preservation of our mixed government. After a concession of this nature, all declamation must be abandoned; and a calm enquiry into the proper degree of court-influence and parliamentary dependence would have been expected by the readers. In essence, contract theory means government by consent. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, channeling authors like John Locke, wrote that “all men are created equal” and “endowed” with the “unalienable Rights” Franklin also counted Newton among his major influences, but instead of Locke he often referred to his good personal friend, David Hume, whose religious attitude, crucially, was that of an agnostic. Franklin adopted Newton’s determinism and coupled it with Hume’s analytical empiricism to guide his thought in both scientific and ethical matters. has been paid to the influence of Adam Smith. Brilliant, if spec-ulative, arguments have been made for the influence of Francis Hutcheson on Thomas Jefferson's thought in the Declaration of Independence, of David Hume on James Madison's conception of the Constitution, and of Thomas Reid on James Wilson's jurisprudence. No The idea of ‘self-evident” truths was one that drew less on John Locke, who was Jefferson’s favored philosopher, than on the scientific determinism espoused by Isaac Newton and on the analytic empiricism of Franklin’s close friend David Hume. lthough Christopher Hitchens was often cheerfully iconoclastic, his 2005 biography of Thomas Jefferson affirmed the scholarly and popular consensus: the Declaration of Independence is based on John Locke’s ideas. But is it? Locke’s definition of “self-evident” would disallow the use of those “crucial words” in the Declaration. For Scottish Philosopher David Hume served as harbinger for an American worldview supporting government committed to freedom, justice, and equity. Hume had faith in social progress while recognizing its limitations that civil society was moving from slavery to freedom. in 1922 The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America Thomas Jefferson,2022-09-16 DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America by Thomas Jefferson DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind Every DigiCat book has been The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America Thomas Jefferson,2022-09-16 DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America by Thomas Jefferson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind.
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