 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Philosophy - 2002 - 488 pages
...eminent Enlightenment philosopher-historians as Hume and Voltaire still believed that, as Hume puts it, "mankind are so much the same in all times and places that history informs us of nothing xiv new or strange." What Herder discovered, or at least saw more clearly and fully than anyone before,... | |
 | M. Gustafsson, L. Hertzberg - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 288 pages
...think the intellectual faculties are made and operate alike in most men." And Hume writes: Mankind is so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new and particular."6 This is more than anything a confession of faith, one which Hume shared with many... | |
 | Morton White - Philosophy - 2009 - 212 pages
...to the one of his that I mentioned earlier. It was Hume who wrote that a historian who wants to know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans would do well to study well the temper and actions of the French and English because "you cannot be... | |
 | Catherine Evtuhov, Stephen Kotkin - History - 2003 - 340 pages
...and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. . . . Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of...and actions of the French and English: You cannot be mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to... | |
 | Richard K. Betts, Thomas G. Mahnken - Deception (Military science) - 2003 - 236 pages
...been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions among mankind . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular.' 29 There are other considerations that make the problem of free will less daunting in practice than... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - Philosophy - 2010 - 128 pages
...are, the source of all the actions and enterprizes, which have ever been observed among mankind. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. (EHU, 8.7)28 In an ingenious passage Hume illustrates the parity of causality in the physical and social... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - National characteristics, Scottish - 2003 - 372 pages
...think we can do better than turn to David Hume. In his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding he said: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular". He meant, of course, that there was a basic similarity in the appetites, needs, emotions and instincts... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 244 pages
...nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular.'"" Reconciling universalism with historicism seems difficult: if humanity is always and everywhere the... | |
 | Robert E. Bieder - Social Science - 2003 - 308 pages
...thinking was the fundamental belief that mankind was all one species and, more pointedly, that mankind was "so much the same in all times and places that history...us of nothing new or strange in this particular." David Hume quoted in Louis Schneider, ed. The Scottish Moralists on Human Nature and Society, pp. 44-45.... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...history lessons depended upon a general confidence in the uniiormity oi human nature. As Hume explained: 'Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history iniorms us oi nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chiei use is only to discover the constant... | |
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Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English. 
