Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment

Thomas W. Merrill, on Libertarianism.org podcast. April, 2016.

Thomas W. Merrill, author of David Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2015), joins Libertarianism.org to talk about the philosophy and political thought of David Hume. What is it about British philosopher David Hume that makes him so popular? What was Hume’s attitude towards politics?