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A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the princip ...Show more
A Treatise on Human Nature by David Hume; David Fate Norton (Editor); Mary J. Norton (Editor)
Category: Accessories | Series: Oxford Philosophical Texts
A Treatise of Human Nature (1738-40) is a philosophy classic by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. The Treatise is a classic statement of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and natura ...Show more
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
This 1748 treatise by David Hume offers an accessible account of his unprecedented and challenging notions about the limitations of the human mind. It expounds the most influential theory of causality in modern times - one that prompted Kant to create an entirely new school of thought. Highly controvers ...Show more
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume; Peter Millican (ed.)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society by David Hume; Angela Coventry; Andrew Valls
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition Ser.
A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be d ...Show more
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
In the posthumously published "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone - at ti ...Show more
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by J. C. A. (EDT) David; Gaskin Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
People Power: The history and the future of the referendum in Australia by George Williams, David Hume
Category: Politics
From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful republican referendum of 1999, Australians have been cautious about constitutional change, approving only eight out of 44 referendum proposals in just over 100 years – a success rate of about 18%. People Power From the failed attempt ...Show more
Selected Essays by David Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, compre ...Show more
The Essential Philosophical Works by David Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published while Hume was sti ...Show more
Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Great Books in Philosophy
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