The passions, according to Hume, are properly found in the realm of secondary impressions. Hume describes both direct passions, such as desire, aversion, grief, joy, hope, and fear, and indirect passions, such as pride, humility, love, and hatred. Hume then distinguishes between the cause and the object of the passions.
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary were published as well, including the one by “The World’s Classics” (London, 1903; reprinted in 1904). These bibliographical details are important because they show how highly the essays were regarded by Hume himself and by many others up to the present century.
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.As seen in these selections, Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic, and historical.
Treatise which discussed morals and politics, Hume displayed his systematic criticism of social contract theory, which also appeared in some essays of Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. However, it must be noted that Hume himself did not consider social contract theory as an important trend in the history of political thought.
The paper contains an historical analysis of the editions and translations of David Hume’s. The title of these and the following essays was changed in to Essays, moral, political and literary in the 1758 edition of Essays and Treatises. The second volume contains. 9 Hume, David (1767) Political Essays on Commerce by David Hume Esq. with.
A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributorsA key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today.
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.
Hume expressed his economic views in his Political Discourses, which were incorporated in Essays and Treatises as Part II of Essays, Moral and Political. To what extent he was influenced by Adam Smith is difficult to stress, however both of them had similar principles supported from historical events.