Bernard Mandeville addressed the relationship between economics and morality and gave an answer no one wanted to hear.
Max Skjönsberg
Quentin Skinner’s notion of liberty has more in common with the liberalism he attacks than he may wish.
In the Present Discontents, Burke laid out his constitutional theory, including his famous defense of political parties.
For Hume, liberty was something unintended and fragile, yet precious.
Ross Carroll’s new introduction to Edmund Burke’s political thought examines the man of letters and the man of action.
There is a clear parallel between Wilkes’s career and the cause of the American revolutionaries.
For Hegel, change needed to build on earlier achievements and learn from past failures.
The philosophy of the modern state contained in Reflections made people rethink what it meant to be a Whig.
Robin Douglass offers a redeeming interpretation of one of the most scandalous books of the Enlightenment: Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees.
Hume was a quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters, as evidenced by his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.