David Hume

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Hume's political science and the classical republican tradition, James Moore
• Hume and the contexts of politics, Richard H. Dees
• David Hume and the conservative tradition, Donald W. Livingston
• The public interest vs. old rights, John B. Stewart
• Hume and Madison on faction, Mark G. Spencer
• Selfish and moral politics: David Hume on stability and cohesion in the modern state, Jeffrey Church
• David Hume's political philosophy: a theory of commercial modernization, Carl Wennerlind
• Hume, modern patriotism, and commercial society, A.B. Stilz
• The European, or cosmopolitan, dimension in Hume's science of politics, Duncan Forbes
• Laws not men: Hume's distinction between barbarous and civilized government, Neil McArthur
• David Hume and the Common Law of England, Neil McArthur
• Utility and humanity: the quest for the honestum in Cicero, Hutcheson and Hume, James Moore
• Hume's 'original difference': race, national character and the human sciences, Aaron Garrett
• Hume's theory of justice and property, James Moore
• Hume's obligations, Knud Haakonssen
• Hume's account of social artifice - its origins and originality, Annette Baier
• Artificial virtues and the Sensible Knave, David Gauthier
• Artificial virtues and the equally Sensible non-Knaves: a response to Gauthier, Annette C. Baier
• Motive and obligation in Hume's ethics, Stephen Darwall
• Hume's Knave and the interests of justice, Jason Baldwin
• The first motive to justice: Hume's circle argument squared, Don Garrett
• The shackles of virtue: Hume on allegiance to government, Rachel Cohon
• Hume's critique of the contract theory, Stephen Buckle and Dario Castiglione
• Name index.