Aaron Alexander Zubia

Feb 7, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Aaron Alexander Zubia |Scott Yenor |Rachel Ferguson |Helen Dale

Aaron Zubia has written the next great book on David Hume. The conventionally-titled book—The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination—is unconventional in its framing, brilliant in its methods, morally serious in its ambitions, and deeply philosophic in its orientation. Hume illuminates the crisis of liberal modernity—and Zubia spreads breadcrumbs to follow for people looking for a way out.

Jan 29, 2024 | thepublicdiscourse.com | Aaron Alexander Zubia

Americans are increasingly anxious. Thirty percent of adults aged eighteen and older report symptoms of anxiety and depression, and the adult suicide rate has increased by 30 percent over the last two decades. Anxiety is increasing among young people, too, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. In 2022, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that adolescents and children as young as eight be screened for anxiety disorders.

Jan 23, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Philip A. Wallach |Aaron Alexander Zubia |James Hankins |Eliot A. Cohen

In a recent Law & Liberty essay, Aaron Alexander Zubia meditates on the question of how Americans should approach the problem of “Saving Ourselves from Party Rage.” He does so by criticizing David Hume and his politics of “utility for utility’s sake.” Zubia argues that, in our own time, “the politics of utility is spent,” and “the politics of truth has come back with a vengeance.

Jan 8, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Aaron Alexander Zubia |Jonathan Leaf |Oren Cass |Graham McAleer

David Hume has something to teach us about party politics. We flatter ourselves that we live in unprecedented times. But the eighteenth-century Scot tells us otherwise. He too lived in an era of “party rage.”For more than a year, Americans have said the country is on the wrong track. Even more striking, a majority claims the “other party’s agenda will destroy America.” Voters are using apocalyptic language.

Nov 27, 2023 | booksfromscotland.com | Aaron Alexander Zubia

Home > Academic > Arts and Humanities > The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination By (author) Aaron Alexander Zubia Aaron Alexander Zubia argues that the Epicurean roots of David Hume’s philosophy gave rise to liberalism’s unrelenting grip on the modern political imagination.