Title:
An enquiry concerning human understanding
Author:
Hume, David, 1711-1776 author.
ISBN:
9780198752493
9780198752486
Uniform Title:
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
v, 296 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Oxford philosophical texts
Oxford philosophical texts.
Contents:
Of the different species of philosophy -- Of the origin of ideas -- Of the association of ideas -- Sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding -- Sceptical solution of these doubts -- Of probability -- Of the idea of necessary connexion -- Of liberty and necessity -- Of the reason of animals -- Of miracles -- Of a particular providence and of a future state -- Of the academical or sceptical philosophy.
Abstract:
Now one of the most widely read works in philosophy, David Hume's An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) introduced his philosophy to a broad educated readership. In it he gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views about the limited powers of human understanding, the attractions of skepticism, the compatibility of free will and determinism, and weaknesses in the foundations of religion. In this volume, an authoritative new version of the text is enhanced by detailed explanatory notes, a glossary of terms, a full list of references, and a section of supplementary readings.
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