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Hilarius Bogbinder reviews David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. “Next to ridicule of denying an evident truth, is that of making much pains to defend it; and no truth appears to me more evident than beasts are endow’d with thought and reason as well as man” ( Treatise , p.176).
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The author and the book First principles Causation Skepticism Determinism Passions, sympathy, and other minds Motivation: reason and calm passions Moral sense, reason, and moral skepticism The foundations of morals
ix schools have claimed Hume as one of their own – positivism, natur-alism, skepticism, empiricism, and phenomenology – to name a few. Competing interpretations of Hume’s analysis of causality regard him variously as a regularity theorist, a quasi-realist, and a skeptical real-ist. In recent years his ethical theory has been considered a work in vi...
personal and intellectual struggles while he was writing the Treatise influenced his conclusions about skepticism and human nature. Throughout the book I draw links back to this biographical study. In Chapter 2, “First principles,” I stress the centrality of the prin-ciple of association of ideas throughout the Treatise, and argue that it is rooted...
their effects. He argues that our actions are determined by circum-stance, motive and character – and that there is no more chance or “indifference” in human action than in physical causes. In practice we all assume the truth of determinism, and yet we have a subjective feeling of liberty when reflecting on our own actions. Hume holds that whatever...
Toward the end of Book I, he identifies a question that still baffles academics and researchers today: How does the human brain/body construct a consistent notion of personal identity from memories and sense perceptions?
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book 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. [1]
A summary of A Treatise of Human Nature: Book I: "Of the Understanding" in David Hume's Selected Works of David Hume. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Selected Works of David Hume and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Divided into three books, A Treatise of Human Nature explores Hume’s initial ideas about the processes of human understanding, the nature of emotions and passions, and the structures of human morality.
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“You find in this one book a comprehensive picture of how everything fits together: the epistemology, the account of human motivations, and the theory of ethics are all rolled in together, and you are led to see how these are part of a coherent whole.”
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