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A Response to My Critics

A Response to My Critics Adam Potkay Hume Studies, Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 173-179 (Article) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0231 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/383258/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Hume Studies Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 173-179 A Symposium on Adam Potkay, The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume ADAM POTKAY In The Passion for Happiness, I attempt to situate Johnson alongside Hume within a common Enlightenment culture and, in so doing, to give us a better idea of what that culture is, or may be said to be.11 am concerned in the book to analyze what I see as their shared debts to classical eudaimonism, particu- larly as it is presented in the philosophical dialogues of Cicero. In this regard, my book builds upon Peter Jones's Hume's Sentiments: Their Ciceronian and French Contexts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982); I am also deeply indebted to some recent re-interpreters of Hellenistic ethics, especially to Martha Nussbaum, Julia Annas, and Lawrence Becker. A third of my book, however, is devoted to a discussion of Johnson and Hume's roughly paral- lel—and, I think, mutually illuminating—careers as political writers and commentators, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

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Adam Potkay Hume Studies, Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 173-179 (Article) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0231 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/383258/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Hume Studies Volume 27, Number 1, April 2001, pp. 173-179 A Symposium on Adam Potkay, The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume ADAM POTKAY In The Passion for Happiness, I attempt to situate Johnson alongside Hume within a common Enlightenment culture and, in so doing, to give us a better idea of what that culture is, or may be said to be.11 am concerned in the book to analyze what I see as their shared debts to classical eudaimonism, particu- larly as it is presented in the philosophical dialogues of Cicero. In this regard, my book builds upon Peter Jones's Hume's Sentiments: Their Ciceronian and French Contexts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982); I am also deeply indebted to some recent re-interpreters of Hellenistic ethics, especially to Martha Nussbaum, Julia Annas, and Lawrence Becker. A third of my book, however, is devoted to a discussion of Johnson and Hume's roughly paral- lel—and, I think, mutually illuminating—careers as political writers and commentators,

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