 | Jacob Opper - Art and science - 1973 - 234 pages
...same throughout the ages after the signing of the original social contract. Hume averred in 1748 that, "mankind are so much the same in all times and places that history informs us of nothing new in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human... | |
 | Anthony C. Thiselton - Religion - 1980 - 512 pages
...across the pastness of the past. Thus David Hume wrote in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. "Mankind are so much the same. in all times and places....informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. lts chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature. "" This outlook... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...source of all the actions and enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of...well the temper and actions of the French and English . . . Mankind are so much the same in all times and places that history informs us of nothing new or... | |
 | Robert C. Solomon - Philosophy - 1985 - 674 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,...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. — Enquiry on Human Nature It was a powerful political weapon, this notion of universality. We find... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1985 - 273 pages
...anti-historical bias in all its dismal flatness, Meinecke reached for two exhibits from David Hume: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular." And again: "The Rhine flows north, the Rhone south; yet both spring from the same mountain, and are... | |
 | David Lowenthal - History - 1985 - 522 pages
...the future. Those who treated history as exemplary understood the past much as they did the present. 'Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...us of nothing new or strange in this particular', stated Hume. 'Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.'67... | |
 | Martin Hollis - Philosophy - 1987 - 236 pages
...source of all actions and enterprises, which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations and course of life of...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. (Enquiries, vm. 1.65) The quotation may seem to rest only on (dubious) empirical observation. But the... | |
 | Morton White - Philosophy - 1989 - 286 pages
...shows by his use of classical examples that he was in accord with Hume's observation that mankind is so much the same in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange with regard to the sentiments, inclinations, course of life, and actions of different nations at different... | |
 | G. W. F. Hegel, Leo Rauch - Philosophy - 1988 - 132 pages
...too often * See Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section VIII, Part I: "Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of...the temper and actions of the French and English. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new... | |
 | Leonard Krieger - History - 1989 - 224 pages
...nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in [its principles and operations, that mankind are so much the same, in] all times and places,...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular" — is derived from the philosophical congruity of our judgments concerning natural and social coherence.53... | |
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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. 
