Political Writings

The first thematically arranged collection of Hume?s political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.

CONTENTS: Introduction. Editor?s Note. Selected Bibliography.

Part 1: Justice and the Structure of Civil Society, from A Treatise of Human Nature, bk. III, pt. II.

Book III: Of Morals
Part II: Of justice and Injustice

I. Justice, whether a natural or artificial virtue?
II. Of the origin of justice and property
III. Of the rules which determine property
IV. Of the transference of property by consent
V. Of the obligation of promises
VI. Some further reflections concerning justice and injustice
VII. Of the origin of government
VIII. Of the source of allegiance
IX. Of the measures of allegiance
X. Of the objects of allegiance
XI. Of the laws of nations
XII. Of chastity and modesty

From An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals