Why the Context of Evaluation Matters

Why the Context of Evaluation Matters “Context: A Framework for its Influence on Evaluation Practice”, eds. Debra J. Rog, Jody L. Fitzpatrick, and Ross F. Conner, New Directions for Evaluation 135 (2012), ISBN: 978-1-118-46328-4, 120 pp. Andreea PARAPUF The journal New Directions for Evaluation dedicated in the Fall 2012 a special issue to the role […]

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Hall’s New Interpretation of the Opus Postumum

Hall’s New Interpretation of the Opus Postumum JBryan Wesley Hall, The Post-Critical Kant: Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus postumum(New York: Routledge, 2015), ISBN 9781138802148, 220 pp. Erdmann GÖRG Over the last two centuries, the work of Immanuel Kant has been discussed intensively. One of the few blind spots in his writings has been […]

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Race in Early Modern Philosophy

Race in Early Modern Philosophy Justin Smith, Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), Hardcover ISBN 9780691153643, eBook ISBN 9781400866311, 312 pp. Dwight K. LEWIS Jr. The ethos of Justin Smith’s Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference is expressed in the narrative of Anton Wilhelm Amo […]

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Justice as an Aritificial Virtue: Selfishness and Human Nature in the Moral and Political Thought of David Hume

Justice as an Aritificial Virtue: Selfishness and Human Nature in the Moral and Political Thought of David Hume Éva KISS-KOCZKA Abstract: David Hume’s moral theory states that our moral decisions are based on sentiments, and that the possibility of such sentiments that can effectively motivate our decisions is based on our benevolent nature. Stating that […]

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Social Resentment and Justice. Considerations on Hume’s Realist Approach to Passions

Social Resentment and Justice. Considerations on Hume’s Realist Approach to Passions Alessio VACCARI∗ Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show that Hume gives the passion of resentment a crucial role in explaining the origin of justice and society, and that this can be regarded as an important argument in favour of the recent […]

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From Reason of State to Coordination by Trade: Hume’s Commercial Society as a Means of Arranging National and Global Political Order

From Reason of State to Coordination by Trade: Hume’s Commercial Society as a Means of Arranging National and Global Political Order Ferenc HÖRCHER∗ Abstract: This paper takes on board the relationship of political and economic ideas in Hume’s essays. It wants to show that although Hume played a major role in preparing the ground for […]

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