Book contents
- The Persistence of Party
- Ideas In Context
- The Persistence of Party
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Background, Contexts, and Discourses
- Chapter 2 Rapin on the Origins and Nature of Party Division in Britain
- Chapter 3 Bolingbroke’s Country Party Opposition Platform
- Chapter 4 David Hume’s Early Essays on Party Politics
- Chapter 5 Faction Detected? Pulteney, Perceval, and the Tories
- Chapter 6 Hume on the Parties’ Speculative Systems of Thought
- Chapter 7 Hume and the History of Party in England
- Chapter 8 Political Transformations during the Seven Years’ War: Hume and Burke
- Chapter 9 ‘Not Men, But Measures’: John Brown on Free Government without Faction
- Chapter 10 Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
- Chapter 11 Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
- Chapter 12 Burke and His Party in the Age of Revolution
- Chapter 13 Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Hume on the Parties’ Speculative Systems of Thought
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2021
Book contents
- The Persistence of Party
- Ideas In Context
- The Persistence of Party
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Background, Contexts, and Discourses
- Chapter 2 Rapin on the Origins and Nature of Party Division in Britain
- Chapter 3 Bolingbroke’s Country Party Opposition Platform
- Chapter 4 David Hume’s Early Essays on Party Politics
- Chapter 5 Faction Detected? Pulteney, Perceval, and the Tories
- Chapter 6 Hume on the Parties’ Speculative Systems of Thought
- Chapter 7 Hume and the History of Party in England
- Chapter 8 Political Transformations during the Seven Years’ War: Hume and Burke
- Chapter 9 ‘Not Men, But Measures’: John Brown on Free Government without Faction
- Chapter 10 Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
- Chapter 11 Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
- Chapter 12 Burke and His Party in the Age of Revolution
- Chapter 13 Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Turning to a series of essays written by Hume in the late 1740s, this chapter moves from the scene of London and Westminster politics to a broader British and indeed Scottish perspective. This chapter shows that the Glorious Revolution and the Hanoverian Succession remained at the heart of British political debate even a half century later. Writing in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Hume concentrated on politics in his native Scotland, and in particular the Scottish version of Toryism, which, as he had stated in his earlier essays, was synonymous with Jacobitism.
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- The Persistence of PartyIdeas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain, pp. 151 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021