David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

Author: David Fate Norton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569089
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
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 'A Treatise of Human Nature'

Author: John P. Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521833760
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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

An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, 1740

Author: David Hume
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature

Author: Robert J. Fogelin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042959030X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
This work, first published in 1985, offers a general interpretation of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. Most Hume scholarship has either neglected or downplayed an important aspect of Hume’s position – his scepticism. This book puts that right, examining in close detail the sceptical arguments in Hume’s philosophy.

Of the passions

Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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The Treatise on Human Nature

Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872206137
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
This series offers central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations distinguished by their accuracy and use of clear and non-technical modern vocabulary. Annotation and commentary accessible to undergraduates make the series an ideal vehicle for the study of Aquinas by readers approaching him from a variety of backgrounds and interests.

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
ISBN: 9780872202290
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
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.

The Riddle of Hume's Treatise

Author: Paul Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751528
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
It is widely held that Hume's Treatise has little or nothing to do with problems of religion. Contrary to this view, Paul Russell argues that it is irreligious aims and objectives that are fundamental to the Treatise and account for its underlying unity and coherence

A Progress of Sentiments

Author: Annette Baier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674713864
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Baier aims to make sense of Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume’s family motto was “True to the End.” Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about “truth and falsehood, reason and folly.” By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.