An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Characters

Great ScottEthics and morality are hefty topics but, luckily, we have David Hume (Scotsman, philosopher, historian, and all-around fountain of knowledge) on hand to guide us. Philosophy can sometim...

Hume mentions most of the secondary characters only once or twice to demonstrate a point. Cicero, however, stands out as someone who's been pretty influential for Hume. Hume calls on Cicero for bac...

When using examples, Hume often looks to ancient Greece and Rome. This includes legendary statesmen, warriors, and scholars, whom he sees as having major skills—sometimes physical, sometimes inte...

Hume doesn't fight it out with individual philosophers. His focus is on philosophers in general, though he draws a line between ancient and modern thinkers. He argues that modern philosophers have...