In 1741, Hume published his Essays, Moral and Political, making a lasting impact on political, economic and aesthetic theory. This collection gathers together over seventy important early responses to Hume's moral theory and Essays, including articles by Adam Smith, James Beattie, Jeremy Bentham, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Malthus and Thomas Reid.

In 1741, Hume published his Essays, Moral and Political, making a lasting impact on political, economic and aesthetic theory. This collection gathers together over seventy important early responses to Hume's moral theory and Essays, including articles by Adam Smith, James Beattie, Jeremy Bentham, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Malthus and Thomas Reid.

This major new work forms the first part of an important new series, Early Responses to Hume's Writings, a collection of 18th and 19th-century critical publications on Hume's philosophical, political, economic and historical writings. The themes of the two volumes printed here are the replies to Hume's moral philosophy, and literary and political essays. Selections are edited, annotated and introduced by Hume scholar James Fieser, editor and founder of two web sites, the Hume Archives and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Many of the selections have not been reprinted since their original publication and are inaccessible to many scholars worldwide. Fully self-contained these two volumes will be a major contribution towards understanding Hume and eighteenth-century philosophy and thought. --unique collection of all 18th-century British reviews of Hume's writings --numerous critical pamphlets, presented in their entirety --selections from books, many of which contain newly discovered discussions of Hume

This work is the second in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.