"Pray what moral sentiments did your wild couple possess, when first they met?" : the relationship between language, sociability and morality in the works of David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid
Aiming to construct a comprehensive analysis of Hume’s scattered linguistic references, it will be argued that the relevance of examining Hume’s characterisation of language relates directly to his claim that it is custom and convention, rather than autonomous reason or innate sentiment, which are p...
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University of Edinburgh
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.663772 |