Hume: Political Essays
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Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Real Author: David Hume
- Editor: Knud Haakonssen, University Of Erfurt
- Date Published: August 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466394
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David Hume is commonly known as one of the greatest philosophers to write in English. He was also one of the foremost political and economic theorists and one of the finest historians of the eighteenth century. His political essays reflect the entire range of his intellectual engagement with politics--as political philosophy, political observation and political history--and function as an extension of and supplement to works such as his Treatise of Human Nature and his History of England. The twenty-seven most important essays are presented in this fully annotated edition, together with excerpts from the History of England that point up their context.
Read more- Presents the most important of Hume's political essays
- Important for a full understanding of his major treatises
- This edition the first to provide a substantial interpretative introduction and thorough annotation
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- Date Published: August 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466394
- length: 416 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Of the liberty of the press
2. That politics may be reduced to a science
3. Of the first principles of government
4. Of the origin of government
5. Of the independency of Parliament
6. Whether the British government inclines more to absolute monarchy, or to a republic
7. Of parties in general
8. Of the parties of Great Britain
9. Of superstition and enthusiasm
10. Of civil liberty
11. Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences
12. Of national characters
13. Of commerce
14. Of refinement in the arts
15. Of money
16. Of interest
17. Of the balance of trade
18. Of the jealousy of trade
19. Of the balance of power
20. Of taxes:
21. Of public credit
22. Of some remarkable customs
23. Of the original contract
24. Of passive obedience
25. Of the coalition of parties
26. Of the Protestant succession
27. Idea of a perfect commonwealth
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