Le républicanisme et la pensée politique humienne

This article examines Hume’s perceptions about the political and socioeconomic events of his time. Anchored on J.G.A. Pocock’s analysis, it explores the ways Hume’s political thought could have been affected by the so-called “British eighteenth-century republicanism,” given the context of widespread disquiet about an unprecedented encroachment of economic and financial power into politics.