Hume and the inflexibility of justice: property, trade and expectations
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This essay explores two links in Hume’s socio-political thought; one between his accounts of justice and property, and another between his conceptions of expectation and commerce. The link is Hume’s argument that justice takes the form of inflexible general rules. It is to establish inflexibility that Hume confines justice narrowly to questions of property, because that is what is needed to underwrite the stability required to build up the reliability of expectations necessary for commercial life.
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