About this title: 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 as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and to form compelling but unconfirmable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780879757434ISBN:0879757434
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. minimal wearing and a dime size stain on the front cover. Basically in new condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 639 p. Great Books in Philosophy. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books, NY
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780879757434ISBN:0879757434
Description: G. Moderate edge wear. Few soil spots to page edges. Very minor highlighting. Pages bright, binding solid.; Great Books in Philosophy; 1.5 x 8.11 x 5.35 Inches; 639 pages. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780879757434ISBN:0879757434
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Tight, solid and appears unread, faintest shelf wear to covers, NICE without any markings! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 639 p. Great Books in Philosophy. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Edition: Everyman's Library Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons LTD., London
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good in Fair jacket. Philosophy. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. This is Everyman's Library No. 549. Hume's main philosophical interest was in morals and politics. This volume is in good shape. The binding is solid. There is a little warp to the front cover. The previous owner has written his name and the date on the inside of the front cover under the flap of the dust jacket. There is a "75" at the top corner of the first page. The dust jacket has much wear and tear along the top edges and a crease ... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780198245889ISBN:0198245882
Description: VG. Second Edition; Minor edge wear. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Very sparse notations. Pages starting to yellow. Binding solid.; 743 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 2003-11-17
ISBN-13:9780486432502ISBN:0486432505
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2/24/2000
ISBN-13:9780198751724ISBN:0198751729
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2/24/2000
ISBN-13:9780198751724ISBN:0198751729
Description: Fine. 0198751729 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small blue OUP stamp on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. DUTTON, INC. 1962
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. PREVIOUS OWNER'S STAMP ON INSIDE FRONT BOARD; PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME ON TITLE PAGE; UNDERLINING AND NOTES THROUGHOUT. NONFICTION HUMAN NATURE. 320 PA GES. read more
Edition: reprint
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: J.M. Dent Everyman's Library, London
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good in rubbed dustwrapper. 12mo. Dustwrapper. 320pp (16) Volume II of the Everyman's Library edition of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (being vol. 549 in Everyman's Library); introduction by A.D. Lindsay; this copy has one bookshop stamp to front pastedown, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper rubbed/foxed, o.w. Good (mylar protected). read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780198245889ISBN:0198245882
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 743 p. Audience: General/trade. slight damage to right margin read more
"Nothing to say about this except that it's astonishingly provocative. The first book - On the Understanding - is the most famous and the most lasting. In Hume's later sections on morals he shows the prejudices and limitations of his age in a way he never does when dealing with raw material of understanding, impressions and ideas."
"I believe I first read this in Cornel West's Continental Philosophy class at Union Theological Seminary, then was assigned much of it again by Arne VanDerNat in his Epistemology class at Loyola University Chicago. Agreeing with Kant that "the acute Mr. Hume" rarely makes an error, I also found his critique of any evidential basis for the concept of necessary causality challenging."
"Wow! Hume has done some deep thought on how the mind works. I do believe that his system of impressions and ideas has a lot of insight but I prefer Kant's system of impressions (I forgot his terminology), synthesis and the unity of apperception and understanding. Seriously though, there may not be innate ideas but Hume makes the way our brains work too linear where Kant allows for it all to work at the same time. Besides, I don't want to cast Metaphysics to the flames."
"I read SECTION VI: OF PERSONAL IDENTITY of this book.
One of my favorite quotes from this has to be, "What is natural and essential to anything is, in a manner, expected; and what is expected makes less impression." This quote, of course, is referring to what, of many things, have an effect on our identity."
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