David Hume

One of the most influential works in Western philosophy, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is David Hume's brilliant attempt to define the limits and powers of human reason. In clear and elegant prose, Hume confronts the assumptions that underlie our beliefs, casting a skeptical eye on everything from cause and effect to miracles and the nature of knowledge itself. Challenging the dogmas of both religion and rationalism, Hume proposes a revolutionary approach to human thought-one grounded in observation, experience, and empirical evidence. His arguments not only shaped the course of Enlightenment thinking but also laid the foundation for modern philosophy, cognitive science, and the philosophy of science. Whether exploring the fallibility of human perception or the origins of belief, Hume compels us to reconsider how we know what we think we know. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding remains a timeless and essential text for anyone seeking to understand the workings of the mind and the boundaries of reason.

On 18 April 1776, shortly before his death, David Hume recounted his life as one lived, by choice, as a man of letters. 'A man of mild dispositions, of command of temper', he told of how, even his love of literary fame, his ruling passion, never soured his temper, notwithstanding frequent disappointments. A bilingual edition in English and French, this book is part of the Luminary Collection.

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DAVID HUME AND IMMANUEL KANT PHILOSOPHY TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME'One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.'David Hume's comprehensive three-volume A Treatise of Human Nature has withstood the test of time and has had enormous impact on subsequent philosophical thought. 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. The second part surveys the passions, from pride and humility to contempt and respect, analyzing their roles in human choices and actions. The book concludes with a meditation on morals and an in-depth explanation of the perceived distinctions between virtue and vice.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason, its knowledge and its illusions. Reason, Kant argues, is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are not therefore entitled to draw conclusions about the natural world from these concepts. The Critique brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Kant's transcendental idealism indicates a third way that goes far beyond these alternatives.

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This Collection includes 4 most notable works of David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. A Treatise of Human Nature 'One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.' David Hume's comprehensive three-volume A Treatise of Human Nature has withstood the test of time and has had enormous impact on subsequent philosophical thought. 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. The second part surveys the passions, from pride and humility to contempt and respect, analyzing their roles in human choices and actions. The book concludes with a meditation on morals and an in-depth explanation of the perceived distinctions between virtue and vice. One of philosophy's most important works and a key to modern studies of 18th-century Western thought, A Treatise of Human Nature is essential reading for all students of philosophy and history. An Enquiry Concerning Human Controversial and widely debated since its publication, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a classic of empiricist philosophy whose questions remain as relevant today as ever. In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume discusses the weakness that humans have in their abilities to comprehend the world around them, what is referred to in the title as human understanding. Hume also discusses including the limits of human understanding, the compatibility of free will with determinism, weaknesses in the foundations of religion, and the appeal of skepticism. A great introduction to the philosophy of David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and the ideas within it are as intriguing today as when they were first written. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals The Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a refinement of Hume's thinking on morality, in which he views sympathy as the fact of human nature lying at the basis of all social life and personal happiness. This book has stood the test of time, and has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A classic work of religious philosophy, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is Scottish philosopher David Hume's famous examination of the nature of God. Through dialogue three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion as to God's nature. They also differ as to whether or not humankind can come to knowledge of a deity.