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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.
He notes the importance to morality of the consequences of actions, while emphasizing that motives are the subjects of moral judgments. He appeals to facts about human psychology as the basis for an argument that morality is founded, not on reason, but on sentiment.
Apr 1, 2008 · David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton’s new edition of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), volumes 1 and 2 of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume,...
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).
David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature is not a breezy book. From the first page, it plunged me into a fervid mode of double-layered analysis in which my struggle to comprehend the text was mirrored by efforts to track my personal reactions to whatever content I was able to wrest from it.
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David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduc-tion to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume’s ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and ...
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