ABSTRACT

Hume’s moral and political philosophy, like his epistemology and meta-physics, originally appeared in A Treatise of Human Nature, (henceforth [7.1]), Book III of which, ‘Of Morals’, was published in 1740. He developed and recast it in a number of essays and dissertations published between 1741 and 1757, (collected together in Hume [7.3]) and in Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (henceforth [7.2]), published in 1751.