Adam Smith Reading Group, February 10--Hume's Essays
- Start Time
- 11:00am
Friday, 10 Feb 2023 - End Time
- 12:30pm
Friday, 10 Feb 2023 - Organizer
- Adam Smith Program
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”