A melancholy skeptic

Hume variously viewed the association of philosophy and melancholy in different stages of his development. In this essay I propose to follow this progress, beginning with his youthful belief that a philosophical life would shelter its pursuer from melancholy. In my hypothesis, for the mature Hume kn...

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Main Author: Lívia Guimarães
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2003-12-01
Series:Kriterion
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-512X2003000200003