Selected essays / David Hume ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998
Descript
xxvi, 410 p. ; 20 cm.
CONTENT
Of essay writing -- Of the middle station of life -- Of the delicacy of taste and passion -- That politics may be reduced to a science -- Of the first principles of government -- Of the origin of government -- Of the parties of Great Britain -- Of superstition and enthusiasm -- Of the dignity or meanness of human nature -- Of civil liberty -- Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences -- Epicurean -- Stoic -- Platonist -- Sceptic -- Of National characters -- Of tragedy -- Of commerce