The Blackwell guide to Hume's Treatise / edited by Saul Traiger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traiger, Saul.

Series:

Blackwell guides to great works.

Blackwell guides to great works ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

xi, 307 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy. * All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars. * Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.

Contents:

THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO Hume's Treatise

Contents

Notes on Contributors

References to the Treatise, Abstract, and Enquiries

Editor's Introduction

PART I: Formulation, Reception, and Scope of the Treatise

1 The Treatise: Composition, Reception, and Response

2 Hume's Other Writings

PART II: The Understanding

3 Impressions and Ideas

4 Space and Time

5 Belief, Probability, Normativity

6 Causation

7 Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World

8 Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy

9 Hume's Conclusions in "Conclusion of this Book"

PART III: The Passions

10 The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions

11 Hume's "New And Extraordinary" Account of the Passions

12 Liberty, Necessity, and the Will

PART IV: Morals

13 Reason, Passion, and the In uencing Motives of the Will

14 Hume's Arti cial and Natural Virtues

15 Virtue and the Evaluation of Character

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610286010

9781782688884

1782688889

9781280286018

1280286016

9780470798010

0470798017

9780470776377

0470776374

9781405153133

140515313X

OCLC:

882139110