“…In addition to these events, White analyzes issues like race, gender, and slavery that undergird the development of American jurisprudence. …”

“…The government's attempts to implement this vision confronted significant obstacles. Southern whites successfully resisted, and Indians resisted with far less success. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Lisa Shapiro -- Love in the ruins : passion in Descartes' meditations / William Beardsley -- The passionate intellect : reading the (non-)opposition of reason and emotion in Descartes / Amy Schmitter -- Material falsity and the arguments for God's existence in Descartes' meditations / Cecilia Wee -- Reason unhinged : passion and precipice from Montaigne to Hume / Saul Traiger -- Reflection and ideas in Hume's account of the passions / Lilli Alanen -- Sympathy and the unity of Hume's idea of self / Donald Ainslie -- Hume's voyage / Janet Broughton -- Artifice, desire, and their relationship : Hume against Aristotle / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Hume and morality's "useful purpose" / David Gauthier -- Reflection and well-being / Robert Shaver -- Friendship and the law of reason : Baier and Kant on love and principles / Sergio Tenenbaum -- Cruelty, respect, and unsentimental love / Michele Moody-Adams -- Trust as an affective attitude / Karen Jones -- Trusting "first" and "second" selves : Aristotelian reflections on Virginia / Woolf and Annette Baier, Jennifer Whiting…”