Man, T.S. Eliot wrote in Four Quartets, “cannot bear too much reality.” The philosopher David Hume identified the mechanism of evasion in 1739 in his Treatise of Human Nature. When we expound a system ...

The pro-choice versus pro-life debate is the "most enduring moral and political issue of our time," Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said Wednesday. "I think in the long run, the pro-life ...

Among those sympathetic to Hume's moral philosophy, a general consensus has emerged that his first work on the topic, A Treatise of Human Nature, is his best. His later work, An Enquiry Concerning the ...

And if Hume questions the traditional view of the mind, he also dismisses the notion that there is a moral sense. According to Hume, morality is based on sympathy, which is nourished by sociability: ...

Contemporary social ills are ascribed by some critics of the liberal West to a moral deterioration connected with the decline of religious faith. The earliest thinkers responsible for our conception ...

Must reason override passion to allow for rational action? William & Mary Philosophy Professor Elizabeth Radcliffe’s new book says both are necessary, supporting the theory of 18 th-century ...

Carlin Romano’s criticism of John Gray (“The Triumph of ‘Smugism,’” The Chronicle Review, January 18) is truly embarrassing. I find the essay an exercise in the very sort of ill-founded smugism that ...