文档介绍：CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
DAVID HUME
Political Essays
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOLGHT
Series editors
RAYMOND GEUSS
Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge
QUENTIN SKINNER
Professor ofPolitical Science in the Uni·versity of Cambridge
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly estab•
lished as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to
make available to srudenrs all the most important texts in the history of
western political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth
century. All the familiar classic texts will be included but the series does
at the same time seek to enlarge the conventional canon by incorporating
an extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before
available in a modem English edition. Wherever possible, texts are pub•
lished plete and unabridged form, and translations are specially
commissioned for the series. Each volume contains a critical introduction
together with chronologies, sketches, a guide to further
reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. •
pleted, the series will aim to offer an oudine of the entire evolution of
western political thought.
For a list of titles published in the series, please see md of book.
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Contents
Ad:now/edgements page IX
Introduction
Chronology "
Bibliographiml notes """'
A note on tlw text anJ the edition =n•""""
BiiJgraphical notes rli
Bibliography !vi
Political Enays
1. Of the liberty of the press 1
2. That politics may be reduced to a science 4
3· Of the first principles of government r6
4· Of the origin of government 20
5· Of the independenq of Parliamt:nt 24
6. Whether the British government inclines more to
absolute monarchy, or to a republic 28
7. Of parties in general 33
8. Of the parties of Great Britain 40
9· Of su