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Title: |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
Sub-title: |
with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh |
Series: |
Hackett Classics |
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By (author): |
David Hume Edited by: Eric Steinberg |
ISBN10-13: |
0872202291 : 9780872202290 |
Format: |
Paperback |
Size: |
215.9x139.7mm |
Pages: |
160 |
Weight: |
.195 Kg. |
Published: |
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US) - November 1993 |
List Price: |
8.99 Pounds Sterling |
Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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Subjects: |
Philosophy : History of Western philosophy : Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge |
A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh , Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature , which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry . In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led Hume to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book I of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature . |