Hume's Philosophical Politics

Introductory preface Abbreviations Part I. The Foundations of Politics: 1. The experimental method in morals: the natural law forerunners 2. A modern theory of Natural Law 3. Political obligation for 'moderate men' 4. Social experience and the uniformity of human nature Part II. Philosophical Politics: 5. Scientific and vulgar Whiggism 6. Applied philosophy, genuine and false: Hume and the Court and Country parties in 1741-1742 7. The primacy of political institutions Part III. Philosophical History: 8. The History of England: philosophical history as establishment history 9. The limits of philosophical history Appendix Bibliography Index.