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Aaron Zubia is Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center at University of Florida.

His new book is The Political Thought of David Hume,

The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination.

That's our topic today.

Welcome, Professor Zuvia.

Thank you, Mark. Great to be here. Now, first, generally speaking, I grew up with Hume as a

philosopher of knowledge and induction, not of political thought. Maybe a little history.

You know, you knew Hume did some historical works, but it was always,

you know, a treatise of human nature that was, you know, where you started with human often ended.

But what makes his political philosophy important? I mean, overall, before getting into specifics.

Okay. Well, that's, first of all, you're right. I mean, even today,

the treatise is read most often among university students. If it's not the treatise, is the

dialogues concerning natural religion that are, that is, these dialogues are read in

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