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An Inquiry concerning human understanding : with a supplement an abstract of a Treatise of human nature / David Hume; edited, with an introduction, by Charles W. Hendel Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics Yale University.
LIBRA - Rare B1480 .H4 1955 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Series:
- Library of liberal arts ; 49.
- The Library of liberal arts ; 49
- Standardized Title:
- Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- lvi, 198 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis ; New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. a subsidiary of Howard W. Ams & Co., Inc. Publishers, [1955]
- Contents:
- Hume's autobiography: "My Own Life"
- An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding. Of the different species of philosophy; Of the origin of ideas; Of the association of ideas; Skeptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding; Skeptical solution of these doubts; Of probability; Of the idea of necessary connection; Of liberty and necessity; Of the reason of animals; Of miracles; Of a particular providence and of a future state; Of the academical or skeptical philosophy
- Appendix: "Why a cause is always necessary" (From the Treatise of Human Nature, Bk. I, Pt. III, Sect. III); An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Notes:
- "The Library of Liberal Arts published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc ..."
- "The present edition of the 'Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding' is reprinted from the first edition of Hume's collected philosophical writings, published in 1826 by Adam Black and William Tait. The text follows the version published in 1777 which contains the author's last corrections made a short time before his death in 1776."--Note on the Text.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages lii-liv).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok February 1963 Philadelphia".
- OCLC:
- 612836266
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