'I have always considered him as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' (Adam Smith)

An appreciation and assessment of the work of the Scottish philosopher and historian by Antony Flew, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. With contributions from Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, Maurice Cranston, Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, John Gaskin, Lecturer in Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin and James Cairncross as David Hume