A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enligh

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other things) that th

David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. El

This volume in the new history of Scottish philosophy covers the Scottish philosophical tradition as it developed over the eighteenth century.

"The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong," writes John Stewart. "Hume was