An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

ISBN-13: 9781551118024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str.

David Hume

Opis

David Hume (1711-1776) is thought to be one of the greatest philosophers. In this text, Hume gives an accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views concerning human understanding.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and References
Introduction
David Hume: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Texts

Front Matter from the 1758 and 1777 Editions of Hume’s Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

• Section 1 Of the different Species of Philosophy
  Section 2 Of the Origin of Ideas
  Section 3 Of the Association of Ideas
  Section 4 Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding
  Section 5 Sceptical Solution of these Doubts
  Section 6 Of Probability
  Section 7 Of the Idea of necessary Connexion
  Section 8 Of Liberty and Necessity
  Section 9 Of the Reason of Animals
  Section 10 Of Miracles
  Section 11 Of a particular Providence and of a future State
  Section 12 Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy

Appendix A: From George Campbell, A Dissertation on Miracles (1762)

Appendix B: From Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764) and Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785)

Appendix C: From James Beattie, An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1774)

Appendix D: From Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1784) and The Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787)

Select Bibliography
Hume’s Index to the Enquiry