Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Liberty Classics Series
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1987
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index. - Publisher.

Hume: Political Essays

Hume: Political Essays
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1994-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521466394

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A fully annotated edition of Hume's most important political essays.

Philosophical Works

Philosophical Works
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1854
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Of Civil Liberty

Of Civil Liberty
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465501487

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THOSE who employ their pens on political subjects, free from party-rage, and party-prejudices, cultivate a science, which, of all others, contributes most to public utility, and even to the private satisfaction of those who addict themselves to the study of it. I am apt, however, to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years; so that not only the art of reasoning is still imperfect in this science, as in all others, but we even want sufficient materials upon which we can reason. It is not fully known, what degree of refinement, either in virtue or vice, human nature is susceptible of; nor what may be expected of mankind from any great revolution in their education, customs, or principles. MACHIAVEL was certainly a great genius; but having confined his study to the furious and tyrannical governments of ancient times, or to the little disorderly principalities of ITALY, his reasonings especially upon monarchical government, have been found extremely defective; and there scarcely is any maxim in his prince, which subsequent experience has not entirely refuted. A weak prince,[1] says he, is incapable of receiving good counsel; for if he consult with several, he will not be able to choose among their different counsels. If he abandon himself to one, that minister may, perhaps, have capacity; but he will not long be a minister: He will be sure to dispossess his master, and place himself and his family upon the throne. I mention this, among many instances of the errors of that politician, proceeding, in a great measure, from his having lived in too early an age of the world, to be a good judge of political truth. Almost all the princes of EUROPE are at present governed by their ministers; and have been so for near two centuries; and yet no such event has ever happened, or can possibly happen.