大卫•休谟是18世纪英国最为重要的哲学家与政治思想家之一。作为苏格兰启蒙运动的重要成员，休谟的道德思想在现代性的形成过程中发挥了关键性的作用。自霍布斯、洛克等17世纪自然法学者将自利（self-interest）作为道德的根本出发点，并试图以此构建整个现代政治之后，18世纪思想家的一个关键语境便是自然社会性的问题。本次讲座将讨论休谟的道德哲学怎样解释根本上自利的人如何可能构成社会，并在此基础上构建正义与政治体。
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Works of David Hume (1711-1776)
A Treatise of Human Nature Books I & II (London, 1739); Book III (London 1740)
Edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge, revised by P.H. Nidditch 2nd ed. (Oxford 1978); or edited by
D.F. and M.J. Norton (Oxford: Oxford Philosophical Texts, 2000)
Philosophical Essays concerning the Human Understanding (1748); subsequently
published as: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1756)
An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)
edited in one volume by L.A. Selby-Bigge, revised by P.H. Nidditch (Oxford, 1975).
Separately edited by T.L. Beauchamp (Oxford, 1999, 1998)
The Natural History of Religion, publ. in Four Discourses (1757), in A Dissertation on the
Passions; The Natural History of Religion, edited by T.L. Beauchamp (Oxford, 2007), or in
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion, edited by J.C. Gaskin (Oxford: World’s
Classics, 1993)
Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1777), edited by E.F. Miller, (Indianapolis: The
Liberty Fund, 1985); also in Political Essays, edited by Knud Haakonssen, (Cambridge:
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, 1994)
History of England, in six volumes (Edinburgh and London, 1754-1762), in the last
corrected edition of 1778, reprinted with a foreword by William B. Todd (Indianapolis:
The Liberty Fund, 1983).
Works by contemporaries of Hume
Bernard Mandeville The Fable of the Bees (London, 1705, 1714, 1723), and
Volume II (1729), in two volumes, edited by F.B. Kaye
(Oxford, 1924, reprinted Indianapolis: The Liberty Fund,
1988)
Joseph Addison The Spectator (First Series, 1711-12; Second Series 1714)
Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke The Craftsman (1730-34): see ‘A Dissertation upon
Parties’, in Bolingbroke: Political Writings, ed. David
Armitage (Cambridge, 1997)
Jean-François Melon Essai politique sur le commerce (1734, 1736), translated as
Political Essay upon Commerce (Dublin, 1738)
Modern works on Hume’s philosophy
J. P. Wright Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature: an Introduction
(Cambridge, 2009)
Annette C. Baier A Progress of Sentiments. Reflections on Hume’s Treatise
(Harvard, 1991), chs 7-12David Hume 24
James A. Harris Hume: an intellectual biography (New York & Cambridge,
2015) Introduction, chs 1-2
James Moore ‘Hume’s theory of justice and property’, Political Studies, 24
(1976)
John Robertson The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-
1760 (Cambridge 2005), Ch. 6.
M.A. Stewart ‘Hume’s intellectual development 1711-1752’, in M. FrascaSpada & P.J. Kail (editors), Impressions of Hume (Oxford,
2005)
Luigi Turco ‘Moral sense and the foundation of morals’, in A. Broadie
(editor), The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish
Enlightenment (Cambridge 2003)
Modern works on Hume’s politics and economics
Duncan Forbes Hume’s Philosophical Politics (Cambridge, 1975)
James Moore ‘Hume’s political science and the classical republican
tradition’, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 10 (1977)
Nicholas Phillipson Hume (1989, new edition, Penguin, 2011)
Istvan Hont Jealousy of Trade (Cambridge, Mass., 2005):
‘The rich country - poor country debate in the Scottish
Enlightenment’
‘The rhapsody of public debt: David Hume and voluntary
bankruptcy’
John Robertson ‘The Scottish Enlightenment at the limits of the civic
tradition’, in I. Hont and M. Ignatieff (eds), Wealth and
Virtue. The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish
Enlightenment (Cambridge, 1983)
‘Universal Monarchy and the Liberties of Europe: David
Hume’s critique of an English Whig doctrine’, in N.
Phillipson & Q. Skinner (eds), Political Discourse in Early
Modern Britain (Cambridge, 1993)
Douglass Adair ‘“That Politics may be reduced to a science”: David Hume,
James Madison and the Tenth Federalist’, Huntingdon
Library Quarterly, 20 (1956-7)
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