Treatise of Human Nature/Book 3: Of morals/Part 2

by David Hume (1711-1776)

BOOK 3: Of morals

PART II: Of justice and injustice.

• Section I. Justice, whether a natural or artificial virtue
• Section II. Of the origin of justice and property
• Section III. Of the rules that determine property
• Section IV. Of the transference of property by consent
• Section V. Of the obligation of promises
• Section VI. Some farther reflections concerning justice and injustice
• Section VII. Of the origin of government
• Section VIII. Of the source of allegiance
• Section IX. Of the measures of allegiance
• Section X. Of the object of allegiance
• Section XI. Of the laws of nations
• Section XII. Of chastity and modesty