Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1758) is a two-volume compilation of essays by David Hume.^[1] Part I includes the essays from Essays, Moral and Political,^[2] plus two essays from Four Dissertations. The content of this part largely covers political and aesthetic issues. Part II includes the essays from Political Discourses,^[3] most of which develop economic themes. The total two-part collection appeared within a larger collection of Hume's writings titled Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects.^[4] This was a collaborative publication with the important Scottish bookseller Alexander Kincaid, with whom the bookseller Andrew Millar had a lucrative but sometimes difficult relationship.^[5]

References

↑ See Hume, David (1758). Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects (New ed.). Strand and Edinburgh: A. Millar and A.Kincaid & A. Donaldson. Retrieved 28 June 2014. via Google Books
↑ See Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A.Kincaid. 1741. Retrieved 15 June 2015. via Google Books
↑ See Hume, David (1752). Political Discourses (Second ed.). Edinburgh: A.Kincaid and A. Donaldson. Retrieved 16 June 2015. via Google Books
↑ James, Fieser (2006). "David Hume (1711-1776)". The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
↑ "The manuscripts, Letter from Andrew Millar to Thomas Cadell, 16 July, 1765. Andrew Millar Project. University of Edinburgh.". www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-06.

External links

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (full text with foreword by Eugene F. Miller)
Four of the Essays, slightly modified for easier reading

David Hume

Books	A Treatise of Human Nature An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary Four Dissertations Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion The History of England The History of Great Britain

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