An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9780872202306 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 151 str.

David Hume; Eric Steinberg

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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."