TY - JOUR
T1 - hume as an ami de la liberté
T2 - The reception of his “idea of a perfect commonwealth
AU - Susato, Ryu
N1 - Funding Information:
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of ECSSS (Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society), North Carolina, 13 April 2012. I would like to thank the participants of the session, especially Craig Smith and Mark G. Spencer, for their useful comments. This research was financially supported by the Kansai University Researcher, 2012, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2010–2013, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2014–2017. I am also grateful to two anonymous referees and Dr Duncan Kelly for their helpful comments and suggestions.
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© Cambridge University Press 2014
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Despite the recent boom in research on the reception and influence of Hume's writings, most scholars have overlooked the fact that his enigmatic essay “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth,” published in the Political Discourses in 1752, not only attracted the attention of some French intellectuals before and after the Revolution, but was also taken seriously by a significant number of radicals-such as Paine, Price, Godwin, Wollstonecraft-and other reform-minded Whigs-such as James Mackintosh. Although the influence of Hume's plan on The Federalist, No 10, has been much discussed, what is more important is that these British reformers often associated his plan with the National Assembly after the Revolution in France. This essay demonstrates that Hume's plan of a large republic with a bicameral system through a two-tier election was an important intellectual resource for his contemporaries and for later generations.
AB - Despite the recent boom in research on the reception and influence of Hume's writings, most scholars have overlooked the fact that his enigmatic essay “Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth,” published in the Political Discourses in 1752, not only attracted the attention of some French intellectuals before and after the Revolution, but was also taken seriously by a significant number of radicals-such as Paine, Price, Godwin, Wollstonecraft-and other reform-minded Whigs-such as James Mackintosh. Although the influence of Hume's plan on The Federalist, No 10, has been much discussed, what is more important is that these British reformers often associated his plan with the National Assembly after the Revolution in France. This essay demonstrates that Hume's plan of a large republic with a bicameral system through a two-tier election was an important intellectual resource for his contemporaries and for later generations.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1479244314000687
DO - 10.1017/S1479244314000687
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047443101
SN - 1479-2443
VL - 13
SP - 569
EP - 596
JO - Modern Intellectual History
JF - Modern Intellectual History
IS - 3
ER -