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Essays, Moral and Political [withdrawn essays] (1741-2) Political Discourses (1752, 1777) Four Dissertations (1757, 1777) A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web.

In 1752, Hume issued a large number of new essays under the title Political Discourses, a work so successful that a second edition was published before the year was out, and a third in 1754.8. Early in the 1750s, Hume drew together his various essays, along with other of his writings, in a collection entitled Essays and Treatises on Several ...

A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web. ... Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part 1 (1741, 1777) Full Text; Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion (1741, 1777)

David Hume. First published Mon Feb 26, 2001; substantive revision Wed Nov 1, 2023. Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (1711-1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical works— A Treatise of Human ...

In 1752, Hume issued a large number of new essays under the title Political Discourses, a work so successful that a second edition was published before the year was out, and a third in 1754. *8. Early in the 1750s, Hume drew together his various essays, along with other of his writings, in a collection entitled Essays and Treatises on Several ...

This edition of Hume's much neglected philosophical essays 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 It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons.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 ...

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1758) is a two-volume compilation of essays by David Hume. [1] Part I includes the essays from Essays, Moral and Political, [2] plus two essays from Four Dissertations. The content of this part largely covers political and aesthetic issues. Part II includes the essays from Political Discourses, [3] most ...

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 ...

Essays, moral, political and literary by Hume, David, 1711-1776; Green, Thomas Hill, 1836-1882; Grose, Thomas Hodge, 1845-1906. Publication date 1889 Topics Ethics, Modern -- 18th century, Social ethics -- Early works to 1800, Political science -- Early works to 1800 Publisher London : Longmans, Green

Most importantly, Hume's Essays manifest a particular form of Enlightenment confidence that we can come to understand ourselves, and improve our condition, without relying on the falsehoods and fantasies of superstition. Each essay, however focused it may be, reflects this underlying philosophical attitude and aspiration, which runs ...

The attacks on Hume's Life and Smith's Letter are discussed by Mossner, The Life of David Hume, pp. 604-607, 620-622, and by T. H. Grose in the "History of the Editions" that begins the Green and Grose edition of Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (London: Long-mans, Green, and Co., 1889), 1:80-84.

Hume's position in ethics, which is based on his empiricist theory of the mind, is best known for asserting four theses: (1) Reason alone cannot be a motive to the will, but rather is the "slave of the passions" (see Section 3) (2) Moral distinctions are not derived from reason (see Section 4). (3) Moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiments: feelings of approval (esteem ...

The second theme in Hume's political essays is that revolutions and civil wars principally arise from zealousness within party factions. Political moderation, he argues, is the best antidote to potentially ruinous party conflict. In economic theory, Hume wrote influential essays on money, interest, trade, credit, and taxes.

Contents (1) Editions of the Essay (2) Edition codes (3) David Hume's Essays Moral, Political and Literary Around 1740, after the publication of his Treatise, David Hume began writing a series of shorter essays on specific economic, political, literary and philosophical topics. These were not published in literary journals or reviews, but rather in a series of essay collections.

A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to ... Jump. Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part 2 Editorial Notes. Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part 2 (1752, 1777) Full Text; Of Commerce (1752, 1777) Of Refinement in the Arts (1752 ...

Hume's Aesthetics. First published Wed Dec 17, 2003; substantive revision Tue Apr 21, 2020. David Hume's views on aesthetic theory and the philosophy of art are to be found in his work on moral theory and in several essays. Although there is a tendency to emphasize the two essays devoted to art, "Of the Standard of Taste" and "Of ...

David Hume ( / hjuːm /; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 - 25 August 1776) [7] was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, [8] and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. [1] Beginning with A Treatise of Human ...

While Hume was away with General St. Clair his Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding was published, but it was not more successful than the original Treatise of a portion of which it was a recasting. A new edition of Moral and Political Essays met with no better fate, but these disappointments, he says, "made little or no impression" on him ...

Sc 20, Mil 167. To be happy, the passion must neither be too violent nor too remiss. In the first case, the mind is in a perpetual hurry and tumult; in the second, it sinks into a disagreeable indolence and lethargy. Sc 21, Mil 167. To be happy, the passion must be benign and social; not rough or fierce.

Hume's famous essay Of Suicide, offered here in the authentic 1757 text (which differs considerably from the frequently reprinted posthumous 1777 and 1783 versions), provides a series of detailed and adroit objections to the principal points of Thomas Aquinas's [q.v.] arguments against suicide, including those that claim that suicide is ...

ESSAY XIV. Of the Dignity of Human Nature. There are certain Sects, which secretly form themselves in the learned World, as well as in the political; and tho' sometimes they come not to an open Rupture, yet they give a different Turn to the Ways of thinking of those who have taken Party on either Side. The most remarkable of this Kind are the ...

DAVID HUME INTRODUCTION The essay Standard of taste is written by Hume and was published in 1757, basically realism was the main key feature of the 18 th century literary works , realism is nothing but a clear depiction of the common lives of people , everyday experiences that they encounter. This era was also known as Neo-classical era (1660- 1788) in which enlightenment took place, people ...

Melon, in his political essay on commerce, asserts, that even at present, if you divide France into 20 parts, 16 are labourers or peasants; two only artizans; one belonging to the law, church, and military; and one merchants, financiers, and bourgeois. This calculation is certainly very erroneous.