Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : With Hume's Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature and a Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh,9780872202290

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : With Hume's Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature and a Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780872202290
ISBN10: 0872202291
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-11-01
Publisher(s): Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary

A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text vi(1)
Introduction vii(9)
Bibliography xvi(2)
Advertisement xviii
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
1(114)
1.--Of the Different Species of Philosophy.
2.--Of the Origin of Ideas.
3.--Of the Association of Ideas.
4.--Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding.
5.--Sceptical Solution of these Doubts.
6.--Of Probability.
7.--Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion.
8.--Of Liberty and Necessity.
9.--Of the Reason of Animals.
10.--Of Miracles.
11.--Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State.
12.--Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy.
A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN TO HIS FRIEND IN EDINBURGH
115(10)
AN ABSTRACT OF A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
125(14)
Index 139

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