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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Treatise of Human NatureA key to modern studies of 18th century Western philosophy, the Treatise considers numerous classic philosophical issues, including causation, existence, freedom and necessity and morality. This is abridged edition has an introduction which explains Hume's thought and places it in the context of its times.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 04 February 1986
- Format: Paperback 688 pages
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- Categories: History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600 | Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900 | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge
- ISBN 13: 9780140432442 ISBN 10: 0140432442
- Sales rank: 37,925
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Full description for A Treatise of Human Nature
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space; considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity, cause and effect; and speculates upon the nature of freedom, virtue and emotion. Opposed both to metaphysics and to rationalism, Hume's philosophy of informed scepticism sees man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite.
