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The Cautious Jealous Virtue: Hume on Justice. BAIER, Annette C. The Cautious Jealous Virtue: Hume on Justice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 261 pp. Cloth, $45.00 - Annette Baier's book is divided into two parts. The first is new, with chapters on Hume's perplexing example of loan repayment, on self-interest, on the relation of equity to justice, on the enlargement of the concept of justice, and on its "janus face" in pointing both outward to the community and inward to private relationships. The second, excluding the Conclusion, consists of republished essays on overlapping topics: on the originality of Hume's justice, on resentment, on the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty, and on promises. The volume is remarkable, amongst much else, in bringing Hume's History of England, a work usually cavalierly dismissed by philosophers as a mere automatic application to historical personages of standards of virtue already worked out in his philosophical tracts, to bear in vivid detail upon these tracts. The secular and atheistic Hume recognizes that the piety of "the Plato-loving Jane Grey," is not only a virtue, but is also, like the moral courage of the Gunpowder Plotters, inseparable from religious faith. His conservative conception of justice, as little more than present possession of property "frozen into ownership," expands to include criminal justice, and the need for fair trial denied to Ann Boleyn and Thomas More. It even includes a measure of social equality, expressed in...