A treatise of human nature / David Human ; edited with an introduction by Ernest C. Mossner.

Author
Hume, David, 1711-1776 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London, England ; New York : Penguin Books, 1984, ©1969.
Description
677 p. ; 20 cm.

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    Penguin classics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Hume's Treatise was published before he was thirty (after its publication in 1739-40 he wrote that it 'fell dead-born from the press'). It is nothing less than an attempt to extend the Copernican Revolution to philosophy - to put to the test of experience a complete system of the moral sciences which had hitherto gone unquestioned. But Hume was no rationalist: from his viewpoint of informed scepticism he could see man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite. With justice Sir Isaiah Berlin has written of him: 'No man has influenced the history of philosophy to a deeper or more disturbing degree.' -- Published description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-[30]).
    Contents
    • Book I. Of the understanding
    • Book II. Of the passions
    • Book III. Of morals.
    ISBN
    • 0140432442 ((pbk.))
    • 9780140432442 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    25488405
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