A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects

Hume, David/ Coventry, Angela (EDT)

Broadview Press Ltd（2023/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 522 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781554811175
• DDC分類 128

Full Description

In his autobiography, David Hume famously noted that A Treatise of Human Nature "fell dead-born from the press." Yet it is now widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophical works written in the English language. Within, Hume offers an empirically informed account of human nature, addressing a range of topics such as space, time, causality, the external world, personal identity, passions, freedom, necessity, virtue, and vice. This edition includes not only the full text of the Treatise but also Hume's summarizing Abstract, as well as selections drawn from critical book reviews which showcase the work's reception in Hume's own time. Angela Coventry's expert introduction and annotations serve to contextualize the book's themes and arguments for modern readers.

Contents

Introduction
David Hume: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the TextsA Treatise of Human Nature

Book 1: Of the Understanding
Book 2: Of the Passions
Book 3: Of Morals
Appendix to the Treatise

Appendix A: The Abstract of the Treatise (1740)

Appendix B: From Review of Hume's Treatise, History of the Works of the Learned (1739)

Appendix C: French Book Reviews of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1740-41)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography

Index