David Hume on Civil Liberty and Press Liberty (Illustrated and Bundled with Autobiography by David Hume)

Overview

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter as the follows:
1. MY OWN LIFE – DAVID HUME
2. OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS – DAVID HUME
3. OF CIVIL LIBERTY– DAVID HUME

David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, and economist in the row with the greatest thinkers Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Keynes, John Locke, and Alfred Marshall. Their thoughts had strong influence on building the foundation of the United States and its endeavor of open society.

David Hume in this book gave a powerful discussion of the important foundation of civil liberty and the needs for the liberty of the press in a modern and civilized social system.

Hume’s work produced great influence on utilitarianism, logical positivism, the philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, and cognitive philosophy.

David Hume’ influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences.
The reasoning by David Hume still remains as relevant today as it was then. This book is one of the most important ones about the deepest thoughts of the liberty of the press in a civilized society by David Hume, one of the greatest thinkers of modern economics and logic on the planet.

If you are looking for the answer to address that “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”, this is the right book for you.

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