| A Treatise Of Human Nature: Book II Of The Passions, Part I Of Pride And Humility Contributor(s): Hume, David (Author), Hyslop, James H. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0548187703 ISBN-13: 9780548187708 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $41.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 128 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. It is easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself. |