Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. David Hume's Philosophy of Common Life; 2. "Nothing but Sophistry and Illusion": Metaphysical Speculation before Hume; 3. Active Sovereignty in Natural and Moral Philosophy; 4. "Mitigated Scepticism" and Our "Mixed Kind of Life": The Philosophic Modesty of Hume's Science of Common Life; 5. The Liberal Imagination and the Problem of Abstract Speculative Principles in Politics; 6. Humanity and Commerce

7. Religious Revolution and England's Humane Political Constitution8. Religious Belief and Hume's Philosophy of Common Life; 9. Humanity and Theology in Hume's Religious Dialogues; 10. Toward a More Philosophical Philosophy of Common Life; Notes; Index