 | Rohan Amanda Maitzen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 254 pages
...observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all iimes and places, that history informs us of nothing new...constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from... | |
 | Martin Hollis - Philosophy - 1998 - 184 pages
...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times...history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular.2 He thus commits himself squarely to a human nature which is constant in its principles... | |
 | Arie L. Molendijk, Peter Pels - Religion - 1998 - 350 pages
...England, is no better than Toland in transcending an a-historical approach to Religion or human nature: "Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular" (Enquiry, Section VIL i, 65). Strictly speaking, if humankind were, on the whole, capable of "reasoning... | |
 | Michael N. Forster - Philosophy - 1998 - 674 pages
...respected not only as philosophers but also as historians, had still been able to write, respectively, that "mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...that history informs us of nothing new or strange ... Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature," and that... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times...constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...seen Levi-Strauss reprove for mistaking local for universal assumptions: "Mankind," Hume believes, are so much the same in all times and places, that...constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations. . . . These records of wars, intrigues,... | |
 | Peter H. Kahn - Nature - 1999 - 302 pages
...the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...that history informs us of nothing new or strange. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature, (p. 83) Writers... | |
 | Charles L. Griswold - Philosophy - 1999 - 430 pages
...nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. . . . Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that his1ory informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover... | |
 | Alexander Broadie - Philosophy - 2000 - 116 pages
...nature. He is explicit on the many relations between philosophy and history. For example, he affirms: 'Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from... | |
 | Guy Story Brown - Political science - 2000 - 460 pages
...course of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English.... Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places,...constant and universal principles of human nature." Hume's view that "the philosophy of the ancients" is "entirely hypothetical," that is, it rests "more... | |
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Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature... 
