1. Self-interested individualism as a methodological principle, and, to a substantial degree, as an assumption about actual motivation in social and political life; (2) a view of politics as an activity centered on attempts to advance diverse interests and on strategies for containing or managing conflict rather than as a quest for social harmony or human perfection; (3) religious and intellectual toleration and openness; (4) enthusiasm for economic growth through secure property rights, commerce, competition, and free markets; and (5) a high valuation on personal liberty;Whelan supplies a useful summary of all the features of Hume's thought that overlap with those usually associated with classical liberalism
2. In all governments, there is a perpetual intestine struggle, open or secret, between Authority and Liberty; and neither of them can ever absolutely prevail in the contest. A great sacrifice of liberty must necessarily be made in every government; yet even the authority, which confines liberty, can never, and perhaps ought never, in any constitution, to become quite entire and uncontroulable. [?] In this sense, it must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests;the History
3. The second concern Hume's approach to history which exemplifies a kind of normative theorizing that is in close contact with social and political context rather than being abstracted and applied from above (2011: 166). Significantly, Sabl will in a forthcoming book discuss "the exact mode in which Hume combined agency and situation;Harvard School" realism,2002
4. Theories of Justice