An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Couverture souple

Hume, David

 
9781604595376: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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ISBN 10 : 160459537X ISBN 13 : 9781604595376
Editeur : Wilder Publications, 2009

Synopsis

David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding was a simplification of an earlier effort, Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise of Human Nature He felt that if "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work. The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects. This book was highly influential, Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his "dogmatic slumber." The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711 – 1776) was a historian and economist, best known today for his system of radical philosophical empiricism. Hume's approach to philosophy elevates him to the ranks of British Empiricists John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) creates a naturalistic science of man examining the psychological basis of human nature. Hume believed that passion, not reason, governs human behaviour. Hume held that genuine knowledge must be traceable to objects perceived in experience, or a result of abstract reasoning. Hume has proved influential on utilitarianism, logical positivism, Immanuel Kant, William James, the philosophy of science, analytic philosophy, theology, cognitive science, and other movements and thinkers.

Présentation de l'éditeur

David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding was a simplification of an earlier effort, Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise of Human Nature He felt that if "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work. The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects. This book was highly influential, Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his "dogmatic slumber." The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

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Éditeur
Wilder Publications
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
160459537X
ISBN 13 
9781604595376
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
116
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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