Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy

"e;The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong,"e; writes John Stewart. "e;Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles."e; In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal moral and political philosopher. Against t...