Hume's Cultural Bigotry

In the literature, discussion of Hume’s racism has largely centred on an appalling and infamous footnote to his essay entitled ‘Of National Characters’. This ignores, or at best sidelines, the bigotry contained in the main text of the essay. I will first make the case that the main text of the essay expresses a cultural bigotry. Then, I contrast this cultural bigotry with the [...]