Adam Smith Reading Group, February 10--Hume's Essays

This semester we read David Hume's Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1994).

For our meeting on Friday, February 10 we read pages xxx-i-xlix; 533-537; 3-79, which correspond to the following essays. (Participants should focus on the essays in boldface.)

• “My Own Life”
• Adam Smith’s letter to Strahan
• "Of Essay-Writing" [this is the only essay we list here out of order]
• “Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion”
• “Of the Liberty of the Press”
• “That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science”
• “Of the First Principles of Government”
• “Of the Origin of Government”
• “Of the Independency of Parliament”
• “Whether the British Government Inclines More to Absolute Monarchy, or to a Republic”
• “Of Parties in General”
• “Of the Parties of Great Britain”
• “Of Superstition and Enthusiasm”