文档介绍：Hume and Prejudice Robert Palter Hume Studies Volume XXI, Number 1 (April, 1995) 3-24. Your use of the HUME STUDIES archive indicates your acceptance of HUME STUDIES’ Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /about/ . HUME STUDIES’ Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the HUME STUDIES archive only for your personal, mercial use. Each copy of any part of a HUME STUDIES transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. For more information on HUME STUDIES contact humestudies- info@ / HUME STUDIES Volume XXI, Number 1, April 1995, pp. 3-23 Hurne and Prejudice ROBERT PALTER In a laudable effort to trace the roots of the racist ideas and practices that continue to plague our society, numerous scholars, during the past few dec- ades, have undertaken to expose the racism and ethnocentrism of some of our most revered culture heroes. For American historians, favorite targets have been two of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson;’ for intellectual historians, favorite targets have been those two cy- nosures of the empiricist tradition, Locke and Thus, for example, when the 250th anniversary of Jefferson’s birth was commemorated at the University of Virginia in October 1992, one of the contributors, speaking on Jefferson and slavery, “brought a prosecutor’s zeal to the conference.. .to the point where some scholars present wondered what he was hoping to ac- c~mplish.”~ Similar zeal has been evident in some recent discussions of Hume’s prejudices, with both Hume’s philosophy and his moral character being vigorously-not to sa