TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rasmussen,Dennis C.
TI  - The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire 
SN  - 9781107045439 (ebook)
AV  - B802 .R375 2014
U1  - 148 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Liberalism
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the 'pragmatic Enlightenment'. He defends this strand of Enlightenment thought against both the Enlightenment's critics and some of the more idealistic Enlightenment figures who tend to have more followers today, such as John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham. Professor Rasmussen argues that Hume, Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire exemplify an especially attractive type of liberalism, one that is more realistic, moderate, flexible, and contextually sensitive than most other branches of this tradition
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107045439
ER  -