| dc.description.abstract | In this paper I would like to present an interpretation of
David Hume’s political theory. Therefore, a method of investigation can
be recognized as hermeneutical one. Main threads which I would like to
emphasize are: concept of stability, distribution of power, role of an opinion in political dimension and a conservative attitude toward a change.
I claim that important lesson for political science can be taken from his
theory. Generally speaking, this lesson consists in refusing the so-called
political regime fetishism and focusing on the relevant issues of social
stability. These issues are strictly determined by the opinions, hence
the proper subject-matter of political science is identified with them. As
one of the conclusions I propose a thesis that politics is, and ought only
to be slave of opinions, what is an allusion to a famous sentence from
A Treatise of Human Nature that the reason is, and ought only to be the
slave of the passions. | en_US |
