Public Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre, 18 February 1982
Explaining America: The ‘Federalist’
by Garry Wills.
Athlone, 286 pp., £14.50, August 1981,0 485 30003 6 Show More
by Garry Wills.
Athlone, 286 pp., £14.50, August 1981,
James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition
by David Hoeveler.
Princeton, 374 pp., £13.70, June 1981,0 691 04670 0 Show More
by David Hoeveler.
Princeton, 374 pp., £13.70, June 1981,
“... in 1793, he declared that if what he had advocated was treasonable, then Plato, Harrington and David Hume were equally guilty. To the present-day student of Hume, Muir’s inclusion of him in his catalogue of reformers must appear even odder than his appeal to Plato: for Hume is usually and rightly portrayed as a consistent defender of the 18th-century ... ”
