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A Treatise of Human Nature. Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1739. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
- Preface Acknowledgments List of abbreviations
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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...
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]
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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A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume’s earliest and most comprehensive philosophical work, was first published, anonymously, in January 1739 (Volume 1 and Volume 2) and late October 1740 (Volume 3).
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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.
