Books by Duncan Forbes

This is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings and is presented in its historical context as an innovative, 'philosophical', empirically based system of politics for a radical post-revolutionary age, and a political education for parochial, backward-looking party men.

This essay treats of the revolutionary change in historical writing that followed the entry into England, early in the nineteenth century, of the ideas of Vico and of the German historical school. Mr. Forbes is particularly concerned with the part played by the liberal Anglicans, whose idea of History as a whole has hitherto lacked an English historian.