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Should We Continue to Read and Honor Immoral Historical Philosophers?
Should We Continue to Read and Honor Immoral Historical Philosophers?

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In 2020, the University of Edinburgh renamed what was then called Hume Tower, removing the name of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on the grounds that Hume supported slavery and was a racist. Recently, David Ashton and Peter Hutton have written two pieces (here and here, and see also the post on this […]

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