International Library of Essays in the History of Social and

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.