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David Hume, the Arab Spring and Capitalism
Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011 22:28
Happy Belated 300th Birthday, David Hume! And thanks to Crooked Timber for a pointer to both this anniversary date and his neglected influence on social sciences. I’ll re-quote two parts of a re-quote from there (happy internet copy-paste days). They do a very good job at explaining what happens in the Arab world and our own homes.
The first one deals with power of the masses, and why they so often don’t use it: