Dennis C Rasmussen
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"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many...
2) The infidel and the professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought
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"One of The Australian Review's 2017 Books of the Year" "One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2017" "Selected for Bloomberg View's "Must-Reads of 2017: From Space to Chinese Noir"" "One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kaushik Basu)" "Shortlisted for the 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" Dennis C. Rasmussen is associate professor of political science at Tufts University. His books include The Pragmatic Enlightenment....
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Uno de los libros del año en The Guardian.
David Hume es considerado el filósofo inglés más importante que jamás haya existido. Sin embargo, en vida se le atacó por su escepticismo religioso, se le llamó el Gran Infiel y se le consideró inapto para instruir a los jóvenes. Adam Smith, en cambio, fue un profesor reverenciado de filosofía moral y a menudo se le ensalza como padre fundador del capitalismo. Lo más asombroso, con todo, es que...