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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I

David Hume

Published: 1741, 1742

Copytext: 1777

The first more or less complete edition of Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, his collected philosophical works, was published in 1758, although each of its component works were published separately before then, and an incomplete version (predating the Four Dissertations) was published in 1753. Our copytext is the posthumous edition of 1777, which Hume was working on before he died, and which contains many final alterations.

Hume.ETSS.EMPL1

ESSAYS,

MORAL, POLITICAL,

and

LITERARY.

PART I.

Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion (1741)Of the Liberty of the Press (1741)That Politics may be reduced to a Science (1741)Of the First Principles of Government (1741)Of the Origin of Government (1777)Of the Independency of Parliament (1741)Whether the British Government inclines more to Absolute Monarchy, or to a Republic (1741)Of Parties in General (1741)Of the Parties of Great Britain (1741)Of Superstition and Enthusiasm (1741)Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature (1741)Of Civil Liberty (1741)Of Eloquence (1742)Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences (1742)The Epicurean (1742)The Stoic (1742)The Platonist (1742)The Sceptic (1742)Of Polygamy and Divorces (1742)Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing (1742)Of National Characters (1748)Of Tragedy (1757)Of the Standard of Taste (1757)