| An enquiry concerning human Understanding Contributor(s): Gouveia, Andrea (Editor), Hume, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 153466789X ISBN-13: 9781534667891 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Empiricism - Philosophy | Epistemology - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 121 |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6" W x 9" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. 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. |