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Death and character : further reflections on Hume / Annette C. Baier.
LIBRA B1489 .B34 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baier, Annette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.
- Hume, David.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Reason.
- Skepticism.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Character.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 288 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Acting in character
- Impersonation, the very idea
- Hume's excellent hypocrites
- Hume's treatment of Oliver Cromwell
- Hume and the conformity of Bishop Tunstal
- Hume's deathbed reading: a tale of three letters
- Hume's impressions and his other metaphors
- The life and mortality of the mind
- Hume's labyrinth
- A voice, as from the next room
- The energy in the cause
- Hume's post-impressionism
- Why Hume asked us not to read the Treatise
- Conclusion: Hume's curriculum vitae: his "own life," written by himself.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780674030909
- 0674030907
- OCLC:
- 196300762
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