Toward (and Away from) an Epicurean Modernity – - Scott Yenor

Aaron Zubia has written the next great book on David Hume : The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination .

He says Hume illuminates the crisis of liberal modernity and spreads breadcrumbs to follow for people looking for a way out.

Zubia: Hume's most explicit departure from ancient Epicureans deepens his radical adherence to Epicurean conventionalism.

David Frum : John Rawls almost appears as the effectual truth of Hume’s Epicureanism.

Hume reduced reason to a species of feeling, denigrating reason as logos through which people reason about the ends of human longing, Frum writes.

Hume's “nobody” early critics consistently raise the issue of conscience, the touchstones of moral actions, and man's natural duties.