The Cautious Jealous Virtue ART BOOKS Pages for your personal reading

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and a dash of ghostly intervention

author of The Last Debutantes

Gwen Millward

The Cautious Jealous Virtue ART BOOKS Pages for your personal readingLike David Hume, whose work on justice she engages here, Annette C. Baier is a consummate essayist: her spirited, witty prose captures nuances and telling examples in order to elucidate important philosophical ideas. Baier is also one of Hume's most sensitive and insightful readers. In The Cautious Jealous Virtue, she deepens our understanding of Hume by examining what he meant by "justice." In Baier's account, Hume always understood justice to be