Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

Name: Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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By Radcliffe, Elizabeth S.

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David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in 1739-40, was his first major work of philosophy, and his only systematic, scientific analysis of human nature. It is now regarded as a classic text in the history of Western thought and a key text in philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. This Critical Guide offers fourteen new essays on the work by established and emerging Hume scholars, ranging over Hume's epistemology and philosophy of mind, the passions and ethics, and the early reception of the Treatise. Topics include the significance of Hume's treatment of the passion of curiosity, the critical responses to Hume's account of how we acquire belief in external objects, and Hume's depiction of the human tendency to view the world in inegalitarian ways and its impact on our view of virtue. The volume will be valuable for scholars and students of Hume studies and in eighteenth-century philosophy more generally.

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Number of Pages:: 308
Release Date:: 2025-11-25
Publication Date:: 2025-11-25
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1009218093
ISBN13:: 9781009218092
Weight:: 599 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 21 cm

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