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1	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.72! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Treatise of Human Nature more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
3	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist Oxford Philosophical Texts Series Editor: John Cottingham The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings more books like this by David Hume, Stephen Buckle (Editor) add to wishlist David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. It develops an account of human mental functioning which emphasizes the limits of human knowledge and the extent of our reliance on (non-rational) mental habits. It then applies that account to ... see all copies from $9.45! new only from $9.45! \| SVS
5	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Posthumous Essays, of the Immortality of the Soul, and of Suicide, from an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding of Miracles more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.33!
6	Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist The "Oxford Philosophical Texts" series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume, issued in a uniform and affordable paperback format, provides a clear text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion more books like this by George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume add to wishlist This volume includes the major works of the British Empiricists, philosophers who sought to derive all knowledge from experience. All essays are complete except that of Locke, which Professor Richard Taylor of Brown University has skillfully abridged. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals more books like this by David Hume, L. A. Sir Selby-Bigge, P. H. Nidditch add to wishlist Reprinted from the posthumous edition of 1777 and edited with introduction, comparative tables of contents, and analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Third edition with text revised and notes by P. H. Nidditch. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $32.36! \| SVS
9	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist Humankind has pondered many mysteries, but few more enticing than the existence of a divine creator who is said to have set the universe in motion. Imitating the well-known style of Platonic dialogues, the relentless inquirer and empiricist David Hume assembles a group to discuss the existence of God, his divine nature, his attributes, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau more books like this by Sir Ernest Barker (Editor) add to wishlist Contents: Introduction, Sir Ernest Barker; An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government, John Locke; Of the Original Contract, David Hume; The Social Contract, J.J. Rousseau. see all copies from $2.54! new only from $25.44! \| first editions
11 view cover	The history of England from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the abdication of James the Second, 1688 more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! new only from $27.25! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings more books like this by David Hume, Dorothy Coleman (Editor) add to wishlist David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning ... see all copies from $3.72! new only from $3.72!
13 view cover	Essays Moral Political Literary more books like this by David Hume, Eugene F Miller (Editor) add to wishlist This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate ... see all copies from $3.96! new only from $10.97! \| SVS
14 view cover	Principal Writings on Religion Including Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Natural History of Religion more books like this by David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (Editor) add to wishlist David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.78! \| first editions
15 view cover	Photo Op: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Covers Events That Shaped Our Times more books like this by David Hume Kennerly, Jeff MacNelly (Introduction by), Macnelly Jeff (Introduction by) add to wishlist The last thirty years of American history have produced a compelling range of images: Vietnam and the student protests, Robert Kennedy's assassination and Richard Nixon's election, the trauma of Watergate and the recovery under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, the fragile beginnings of peace in the Middle East and the crumbling of the Soviet Union. ... see all copies from $27.00! new only from $93.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding: With a Supplement, an Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17	Political Writings more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist see all copies from $5.61! new only from $13.73!
18 view cover	Hume: Political Essays more books like this by David Hume, Knud Haakonssen (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor) add to wishlist David Hume is commonly known as one of the greatest philosophers to write in English. He was also one of the foremost political and economic theorists and one of the finest historians of the eighteenth century. His political essays reflect the entire range of his intellectual engagement with politics - as political philosophy, political ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Shooter more books like this by David Hume Kennerly add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	A treatise of human nature : being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. Book 1, Of the understanding more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
21	Dialogues concerning natural religion and the posthumous essays, Of the immortality of the soul and Of suicide more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.35!
22 view cover	Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects more books like this by David Hume, Thoemmes Press (Creator) add to wishlist David Hume (1711-76) is the grand intellectual figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Ironically, what is now considered his magnum opus, the ill-received three-volume "A Treatise of Human Nature" (1739-40), was rejected by Hume himself by 1751. Subsequently, when Hume first compiled his "Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects" two years later, ... see all copies from $17.42! new only from $17.42! \| first editions
23 view cover	A Treatise on Human Nature more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: impact. Of the fallacies, one is the confusion between this affection and the idea of which it is the occasion to the individual; the other is the implication that ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $25.93!
24 view cover	Something from the Cellar: More of This & That: Selected Essays from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal more books like this by Ivor Noel Hume, David M Doody (Photographer), Tom Green (Photographer) add to wishlist Something From the Cellar includes selected essays by Ivor Noel Hume, who headed Colonial Williamsburg's archeological program for thirty years. In this eclectic collection from the pages of Colonial Williamsburg, the popular history journal, Noel Hume ventures beyond Williamsburg to such historic places as Jamestown see all copies from $35.31! new only from $35.31!
25 view cover	The Natural History of Religion more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist As every enquiry, which regards religion, is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular, which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning its origin in human nature. Happily, the first question, which is the most important, admits of the most obvious, at least, the clearest ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| first editions \| SVS

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