About this title: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and to form compelling but unconfirmable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth w/ Gilt Lettering
Publisher: J. M Dent & Sons, London
Date Published: 1930
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Date Published: 1940
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Date Published: 1949
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Date Published: 1949
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Date Published: 1961
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780460882248ISBN:0460882244
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Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: Hardback with D/J. GOOD READING COPY. Wear to cover. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Description: Hardback with D/J. USED, BUT IN GOOD CONDITION. Volume Two.1949 edition. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Description: Published by DENT in N/A. Hardback with Dust jacket. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY #1100246 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dent
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780460015486ISBN:0460015486
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dent
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780460015486ISBN:0460015486
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Everyman Paperbacks
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780460882248ISBN:0460882244
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Description: Very good. By David Hume; ISBN: 0460882244; Pub. : Everyman Paperbacks; Pub. Date: 2003-07-15; Media: Paperback; Weight: 11.2 oz.; Very good condition. 2nd edition. by David Hume; ISBN: 0460882244; Pub. : Everyman Paperbacks; Pub. Date: 2003-07-15; Media: Paperback; Weight: 11.2 oz.; Very good condition. 2nd edition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Date Published: 1962
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. In Two Volumes-Volume Two, 400grams, ISBN: read more
"Nothing to say about this except that it's astonishingly provocative. The first book - On the Understanding - is the most famous and the most lasting. In Hume's later sections on morals he shows the prejudices and limitations of his age in a way he never does when dealing with raw material of understanding, impressions and ideas."
"I believe I first read this in Cornel West's Continental Philosophy class at Union Theological Seminary, then was assigned much of it again by Arne VanDerNat in his Epistemology class at Loyola University Chicago. Agreeing with Kant that "the acute Mr. Hume" rarely makes an error, I also found his critique of any evidential basis for the concept of necessary causality challenging."
"Wow! Hume has done some deep thought on how the mind works. I do believe that his system of impressions and ideas has a lot of insight but I prefer Kant's system of impressions (I forgot his terminology), synthesis and the unity of apperception and understanding. Seriously though, there may not be innate ideas but Hume makes the way our brains work too linear where Kant allows for it all to work at the same time. Besides, I don't want to cast Metaphysics to the flames."
"I read SECTION VI: OF PERSONAL IDENTITY of this book.
One of my favorite quotes from this has to be, "What is natural and essential to anything is, in a manner, expected; and what is expected makes less impression." This quote, of course, is referring to what, of many things, have an effect on our identity."
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