"Idea of a perfect Commonwealth" Discourse XII

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1752
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Political Discourses
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Partially a commentary on the subject of an ideal commonwealth. Includes a few pages of the structure of a republican eutopia designed to correct perceived defects in 1656 Harrington.

Pagination
281-304
Published Date

1752

Publisher
Ptd. by R. Fleming, For A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson
Place Published
Edinburgh, Scot.
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1752 Hume, David (1711-1776). “Idea of a perfect Commonwealth.” Discourse XII in his Political Discourses (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by R. Fleming, For A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752), 281-304. Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 55-69; notes on the text on 327-330 and in Hume, Political Essays. Ed. Knud Haakonssen (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 221-233, with and introduction to Hume’s Political Philosophy on xxv-xxx, a Chronology on xxxi-xxxii, Bibliographical notes on xxxiii-xxxvii, and Biographical notes on xli-lv. O

Partially a commentary on the subject of an ideal commonwealth. Includes a few pages of the structure of a republican eutopia designed to correct perceived defects in 1656 Harrington.

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Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 55-69; notes on the text on 327-330 and in Hume, Political Essays. Ed. Knud Haakonssen (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 221-233, with and introduction to Hume’s Political Philosophy on xxv-xxx, a Chronology on xxxi-xxxii, Bibliographical notes on xxxiii-xxxvii, and Biographical notes on xli-lv.

Author Note

Scottish author (1711-1776).

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