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HUME AND KANT ON THE SOCIAL CONTRACT\* Hume and Kant were both political philosophers of remarkable originality, subtlety and profundity; and yet their contributions in this area are largely unrecognized. Both are generally relegated to footnotes in comprehensive texts on political theory -e.g. Hume
Due to a misreading of Kant's reversibility criterion, J.G. Murphy has claimed that the view L. W. Beck ascribes to Kant in the 'Second Analogy' in the Critique of Pure Reason presupposes rather than demonstrates the General Law of Causality (GLC as I shall call it). 1 Indeed, Kant does seek in the
According to Hume, wherever one asserts a causal connection, there one asserts a generality. Thus, his first definition of 'cause' is this: "an object precedent and contiguous to another, and where all the objects resembling the former are plac'd in a like relation of priority and contiguity to thos