Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'

Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature'
Author: John P. Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-11-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521833760

Examines the development of Hume's ideas and their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions.

David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Fate Norton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2007-04-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191569089

David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740) in which Hume set out the key arguments of the larger work; the volume concludes with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh (1745), Hume's defence of the Treatise when it was under attack from ministers seeking to prevent Hume's appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Hume's Science of Human Nature

Hume's Science of Human Nature
Author: David Landy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367891718

Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872202290

A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Author: David Hume
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8027303893

"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."

A Dissertation on the Passions

A Dissertation on the Passions
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199251886

Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.

David Hume - Collected Writings (Complete and Unabridged), a Treatise of Human Nature, an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, an Enquiry Concernin

David Hume - Collected Writings (Complete and Unabridged), a Treatise of Human Nature, an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, an Enquiry Concernin
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2013-01-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781789431599

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. ""A Treatise of Human Nature"" broke new ground by attempting to base philosophy on human nature, making it one of the most important texts in Western Philosophy. Human passions and the ability to distinguish between virtue and vice are elucidated in the text. In ""An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"" Hume discusses the weaknesses that humans have in their abilities to unders