David Hume is famous for his seminal contributions to philosophy and economics during the Enlightenment. He may also have been the principal diagnostician of his time. This at least is Richard Whatmore’s contention in The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis. He argues that Hume’s early optimism about the Enlightenment, followed by a growing pessimism, was emblematic of the age.
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