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A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hume, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions (Philosophy).
- Ethics.
- Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Reason.
- Skepticism.
- Local Subjects:
- Emotions (Philosophy).
- Ethics.
- Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Reason.
- Skepticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (976 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- A Treatise of Human Nature , first published between 1739 and 1740, is a philosophical text by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. The work contains three books: ""Of the Understanding"", ""Of the Passions"" and ""Of Morals"". Written by Hume when he was 26, it is considered by many to be Hume's best work and one of the most important books in philosophy's history.
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Advertisement; Introduction; BOOK I OF THE UNDERSTANDING; Part I Of Ideas, Their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, Etc.; Part II Of the Ideas of Space and Time,; Part III Of Knowledge and Probability; Part IV Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy; BOOK II OF THE PASSIONS; Part I Of Pride and Humility; Part II Of Love and Hatred; Part III Of the Will and Direct Passions; BOOK III OF MORALS; Part I Of Virtue and Vice in General; Part II Of Justice and Injustice; Part III Of the Other Virtues and Vices; Appendix; Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-77556-827-X
- OCLC:
- 589506983
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