David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… went back to London in 1737, where he published the Treatise (1739-40). In 1739, he returned to Scotland, to work on his Essays , which were published in 1741-42. Unable to secure a position in a Scottish university, he went abroad for a few … refine apace’ (Hume, Treatise , 234 ) – as well as in practice. 4 . David Hume, ‘Of National Characters,’ in Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, A Critical Edition, ed. by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A. Box , 2 vols. (Oxford: … p. 472. Philosophy as the Practice of Sociability Hume used philosophy to enact a form of sociability. The four essays on happiness give an insight into such a process. They were published in the second volume of the Essays Moral …
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