A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. This volume offers the Treatise, Hume's abstract, annotation and explanation.

...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time. Mind ...complex, sophisticated and ingenious. Economist.

The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But the resurgence of interest in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. This book intends to see politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry. It argues from first principles to human nature to politics.

'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. This title includes an essay that dedicated to this 'one very simple principle'. It records responses to the author's books and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority'.

Features the central principles of what is broadly known as political liberalism.

A revised version of Peter Lasletta -- s acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.