Hume David - The Essential Philosophical Works - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. David Hume (1711 1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 1740) published while Hume was still in his twenties consists of three books on the understanding the passions and morals. It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human nature in a revolution that was intended to make Hume the Newton of the moral sciences. Disappointed with the Treatise's failure to bring about such a revolution Hume later recast Book I as An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1751) and Book III as An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals which he regarded as incomparably the best of all his works. Both Enquiries went through several editions in his lifetime. Hume's works controversial in his day remain deeply and widely influential in ours especially for his contributions to our understanding of the nature of morality political and economic theory philosophy of religion and philosophical naturalism. This volume also includes Hume's anonymous Abstract of Books I and II of the Treatise and the short autobiographical essay My Own Life which he wrote just before his death.
Title: The Essential Philosophical Works
Author(s): Hume David
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781840226669
Pages: 896 Pages
Publication Date: 8/5/2011
Series: Classics of World Literature
(Editor: Griffith, Tom)
Category: Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900