Jeremy Bentham on David Hume: “Having Enter’d into Metaphysics,” but “Having Lost His Way”
This article argues that Bentham’s metaphysics has until recently been unfairly belittled, and that it in fact built on and surpassed that of David Hume, of whom Bentham was both an attentive student and a fierce critic. Bentham’s logic is metaphysically based, multi-levelled, and comprehensive. Fir...
Main Author: | Zhang Yanxiang |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-09-01
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Series: | Open Philosophy |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0262 |
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