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(2009) A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Dordrecht, Springer.
David Hume's jurisprudence in the Treatise of Human Nature (1738–1740) is shaped by three converging features: anti-rationalism, anti-contractarianism, and (to use Hume's own term) "conventionalism." Hume's anti-rationalism makes him deeply suspicious of latter-day demi-Platonists such as Leibniz and Malebranche, who share Plato's belief in Phaedo and Meno that all "absolute ideas' (including moral and jurisprudential ones) are reason-given "eternal verities' which are geometrically demonstrable.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2964-5_17
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Riley, P. (2009)., Hume and Smith, in E. Pattaro, D. Canale, H. Hofmann & P. Riley (eds.), A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 507-519.
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