David Hume

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• SOURCE: Times of London
  9/14/2020
  

  Edinburgh University Ditches David Hume over Slavery Link

  The University of Edinburgh will rename a tower in response to charges that philosopher David Hume endorsed racism.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Thomas Jefferson’s Bizarre Fear of Monarchism (and Hume)

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Why Hume was much more “liberal” than Jefferson.

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-10-13
  

  Justin E. H. Smith: The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours

  Justin E. H. Smith teaches philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. His most recent book is “Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life.” He is a contributing editor of Cabinet Magazine, and writes regularly on his blog.In 1734, Anton Wilhelm Amo, a West African student and former chamber slave of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, defended a philosophy dissertation at the University of Halle in Saxony, written in Latin and entitled “On the Impassivity of the Human Mind.” A dedicatory letter was appended from the rector of the University of Wittenberg, Johannes Gottfried Kraus, who praised “the natural genius” of Africa, its “appreciation for learning,” and its “inestimable contribution to the knowledge of human affairs” and of “divine things.” Kraus placed Amo in a lineage that includes many North African Latin authors of antiquity, such as Terence, Tertullian and St. Augustine.