Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… a ‘publick benefit’. 6 Hume , too, defends luxury and links it to commerce, albeit in a less provocative manner. His essay ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’ (1752) distinguishes between an ‘innocent’ and ‘blameable’ luxury; but mostly it … 1994), p. 126-134; Berg, p. 22, p. 32. 7 . David Hume, ‘Of Refinement in the Arts’, in Knud Haakonssen (ed.), Political Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 106. Luxury Items What were these new desirable consumer goods? …
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