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An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Millican.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought and argues that we should liberate ourselves from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics and religion. This edition places the work in its historical and philosophical context. - ;'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.'. Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion' of religiously inspired philos
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of David Hume; AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING; Appendix I: Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature (1740); Appendix II: 'Of the Immortality of the Soul' (printed 1755); Appendix III: Excerpts from Parts I and II of the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779); Appendix IV: Excerpts from Hume's Letters; Appendix V: 'My Own Life'; Textual Variants; Explanatory Notes; Glossary; Glossarial Index of Major Philosophers and Philosophical Movements; Hume's Index
- Index of Major Themes, Concepts, and ExamplesIndex of Names Mentioned in the Enquiry; Index of References to Hume's Works
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [lxi]-lxii) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-16084-9
- 0-19-152635-5
- 1-4356-1802-5
- OCLC:
- 476239818
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