Historical narrativity and human nature in Hume
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Hume. Narrativity. Human nature.Abstract
The paper discusses the statute of narrativity not only as methodology in Hume’s work, but as the only way human nature itself can be approached within his project of a science of man. In an exclusively empirical perspective, history is revealed as the level of composing narrations – both in a study of costumes and in dealing with the formation of relations of ideas. The reading of many modern scholars on Hume, that sets apart the Treatise from History of England, as two separate branches of a heterogeneous writing, could be played down by attentive consideration of what is at stake in the demands of objectivity in the context of post-Rankean historiography.
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