The Cautious Jealous Virtue ART BOOKS author of The Last Debutantes

author of The Last Debutantes

and a dash of ghostly intervention

No matter if your garden is big or small

But keeping Avery alive long enough to testify could be the end for them both…

The Cautious Jealous Virtue ART BOOKS author of The Last DebutantesLike 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