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I think it's worth bearing in mind in any comparison of Hobbes and Hume 
that Hume had more than practical reasons for not emphasizing a debt to 
Hobbes. They were opponents on the key political-philosophical point of 
natural rights.  For Hobbes, government was a way of "granting" rights and 
protecting naturally brutish humans from each other.  For Hume, rights 
predate government and government's job is to guarantee and protect them; 
and, human nature is not so brutish, as humans are God's creatures with a 
moral nature. 
 
Buchanan et al. have a Hobbsian view of human nature.  Jim Buchanan is 
quite 
forthcoming in that regard. 
 
Sam Bostaph 
 
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