An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Contributor(s): Hume, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1541260066 ISBN-13: 9781541260061 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Philosophy | Movements - Empiricism |
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.50 lbs) 164 pages |
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Publisher Description: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. 1] It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739-40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.The end product of his labours was the Enquiry. The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects. For example, Hume's views on personal identity do not appear. However, more vital propositions, such as Hume's argument for the role of habit in a theory of knowledge, are retained. |