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,9780872202290

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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

by Hume, David; Steinberg, Eric; Steinberg, Eric

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2nd

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9780872202290

ISBN10:

0872202291

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Pub. Date:

11/1/1993

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Hackett Pub Co Inc

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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 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 to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

A Note on the Text

(1)

Introduction

vii

(9)

Bibliography

xvi

(2)

xviii

AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

(114)

1.--Of the Different Species of Philosophy.

2.--Of the Origin of Ideas.

3.--Of the Association of Ideas.

4.--Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding.

5.--Sceptical Solution of these Doubts.

6.--Of Probability.

7.--Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion.

8.--Of Liberty and Necessity.

9.--Of the Reason of Animals.

10.--Of Miracles.

11.--Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State.

12.--Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy.

A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN TO HIS FRIEND IN EDINBURGH

115

(10)

AN ABSTRACT OF A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE

125

(14)

Index

139

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

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