Editing David Hume (section)

== Works ==
* 1734. ''A Kind of History of My Life''. – [[Manuscript|MSS]] 23159 [[National Library of Scotland]].<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":11" />
** A letter to an unnamed physician, asking for advice about "the Disease of the Learned" that then afflicted him. Here he reports that at the age of eighteen "there seem'd to be open'd up to me a new Scene of Thought" that made him "throw up every other Pleasure or Business" and turned him to scholarship.<ref name=":8" />
* 1739–1740. [[A Treatise of Human Nature|''A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects'']].<ref name=":4" />
** Hume intended to see whether the ''Treatise of Human Nature'' met with success, and if so, to complete it with books devoted to Politics and Criticism. However, as Hume explained, "It fell ''dead-born from the press'', without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots"<ref name=":2" />{{Rp|352}} and so his further project was not completed.
* 1740. ''[[A Treatise of Human Nature (Abstract)|An Abstract of a Book lately Published: Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature etc]]''.
** Anonymously published, but almost certainly written by Hume<ref group="lower-roman">For this, see: Keynes, J. M. and P. Sraffa. 1965. "Introduction." In ''An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature'', by D. Hume (1740). Connecticut: Archon Books</ref> in an attempt to popularise his [[A Treatise of Human Nature|''Treatise'']]. This work is of considerable philosophical interest as it spells out what Hume considered "The Chief Argument" of the ''Treatise'', in a way that seems to anticipate the structure of the ''Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding''.
* 1741. ''[[Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary]]'' (2nd ed.)<ref>Hume, David. 1741. ''[https://davidhume.org/texts/empl1/full Essays Moral, Political, and Literary]'' 1. Retrieved 19 May 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180710222300/http://www.davidhume.org/texts/emp.html Archived]. See also [https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hume-essays-moral-political-literary-lf-ed Liberty Fund edition].</ref>
** A collection of pieces written and published over many years, though most were collected together in 1753–54. Many of the essays are on politics and economics; other topics include [[aesthetics|aesthetic judgement]], love, marriage and polygamy, and the demographics of ancient Greece and Rome. The Essays show some influence from [[Joseph Addison|Addison]]'s ''Tatler'' and ''[[The Spectator (1711)|The Spectator]]'', which Hume read avidly in his youth.
* 1745. ''A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh: Containing Some Observations on a Specimen of the Principles Concerning Religion and Morality, said to be maintain'd in a Book lately publish'd, intituled A Treatise of Human Nature etc''.
** Contains a letter written by Hume to defend himself against charges of atheism and scepticism, while applying for a chair at Edinburgh University.
* 1742. "Of Essay Writing."<ref>Hume, David. 1993 [1742]. "Of Essay Writing," translated by F. Grandjean. Mauvezin, France: Trans-Europ-Repress.</ref>
* 1748. ''[[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]].''
** Contains reworking of the main points of the ''Treatise'', Book 1, with the addition of material on free will (adapted from Book 2), miracles, the Design Argument, and mitigated scepticism. ''[[Of Miracles]]'', section X of the ''Enquiry'', was often published separately.
* 1751. ''[[An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals]].''
** A reworking of material on morality from Book 3 of the ''Treatise'', but with a significantly different emphasis. It "was thought by Hume to be the best of his writings."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PoI6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA548 |title=Samson, G., ''The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature'', CUP Archive, 1941, p. 548 |access-date=16 March 2017|last1=Sampson |first1=George |year=1943 }}</ref>
* 1752. ''Political Discourses'' (part II of ''[[Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary]]'' within the larger ''Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects'', vol. 1).
** Included in ''Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects'' (1753–56) reprinted 1758–77.
* 1752–1758. ''Political Discourses''/''Discours politiques''
* 1757. ''[[Four Dissertations]] –'' includes 4 essays:
** "The Natural History of Religion"
** "Of the Passions"
** "Of Tragedy"
** "Of the Standard of Taste"
* 1754–1762. ''[[The History of England (Hume)|The History of England]]'' – sometimes referred to as ''The History of Great Britain''.<ref>Smith, Adam. 1789. ''[[iarchive:historyenglandf00humegoog/page/n8/mode/2up|The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688]]'' 1. London: [[Thomas Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell]] and [[Longman]].</ref>
** More a category of books than a single work, Hume's history spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688" and went through over 100 editions. Many considered it ''the'' standard history of England in its day.
* 1760. "Sister Peg"
** Hume claimed to have authored an anonymous political pamphlet satirizing the failure of the British Parliament to create a Scottish militia in 1760. Although the authorship of the work is disputed, Hume wrote Alexander Carlyle in early 1761 claiming authorship. The readership of the time attributed the work to [[Adam Ferguson]], a friend and associate of Hume's who has been sometimes called "the founder of modern sociology". Some contemporary scholars concur in the judgment that Ferguson, not Hume, was the author of this work.
* 1776. "My Own Life."<ref name=":2" />
** Penned in April, shortly before his death, this autobiography was intended for inclusion in a new edition of ''Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects''. It was first published by [[Adam Smith]], who claimed that by doing so he had incurred "ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D7Bef_1f_w0C&pg=PA466 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=466 |date=2013 |access-date=16 March 2017|isbn=978-0-19-960506-4 |last1=Berry |first1=Christopher J. |last2=Paganelli |first2=Maria Pia |last3=Smith |first3=Craig }}</ref>
* 1777. "Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul."<ref>ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL http://public-library.uk/ebooks/47/13.pdf</ref>
* 1779. ''[[Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion]]''.
** Published posthumously by his nephew, David Hume the Younger. Being a discussion among three fictional characters concerning the nature of God, and is an important portrayal of the argument from design. Despite some controversy, most scholars agree that the view of Philo, the most sceptical of the three, comes closest to Hume's own.