That is why Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume and Adam Smith--to take only men of the first eminence--were thinking not less for politics than for ethics when they sought to justify the ways of man to man.
Laski identifies the dual focus on ethics and politics among prominent thinkers like Shaftesbury and Hume.
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