Hume : the relation of the Treatise of human nature--book I to the Inquiry concerning human understanding / William Baird Elkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elkin, William Baird, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 330 pages)

Other Title:

Hume

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Macmillan Company, 1904.

Summary:

Owing to the extensiveness of the literature on the subject, the writer's task proved to be a much larger one than he had, at first, expected. Although the dissertation was finished in 1894, and the main results were published in the November number of The Philosophical Review for that year, the author was not quite satisfied with the fruits of his labor. Hence he continued the study. The whole has since been rewritten, and some portions have been amplified. On account of the press of other duties, the completion of the work has been unavoidably delayed, so that the book appears now like one born out of due time. But it is hoped that the length of its embryonic period has tended only to develop and mature its organic structure. While Green and Grose's edition of Hume's philosophical works is the one which was used as the basis of study, it was not thought necessary, when giving quotations, to follow the text in its archaic forms of spelling. Hume's punctuation, of course, has been retained.

Contents:

Introduction

Hume's aim, subject-matter, and method

Perceptions: Their nature, and cause

Association of ideas, and result-complex ideas

Space and time

Theory of knowledge

The idea of cause and effect

Belief

Probability, necessity, and the reason of animals

Material substance and external existence

Spiritual substance, the self, and personal identity

Miracles, a particular providence, and a future life

Conclusion.

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