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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. Early on, my attempts felt futile––understanding ...
Oct 2, 2010 · Wright's earlier book, The Skeptical Realism of David Hume (1983), leaned heavily on his reading of key passages in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding to make his case. His mission here is to show that Hume is a skeptical realist throughout the three books of the Treatise .
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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...
Hume's "Treatise" is divided into three books that cover understanding, passions and morals. This review is on Book II, "Of the Passions." *[Review of Book III added below, November, 2013] At first (actually, third) read, this book is a mess, but the book's meaning gains traction when viewed within Hume's overall philosophical system.
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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] The Treatise is a classic statement of ...
Jan 1, 2006 · This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy. A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship. Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions ...
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