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A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the princip ...Show more
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume; Peter Millican (ed.)
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
This 1748 treatise by David Hume offers an accessible account of his unprecedented and challenging notions about the limitations of the human mind. It expounds the most influential theory of causality in modern times - one that prompted Kant to create an entirely new school of thought. Highly controvers ...Show more
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume; Eric Steinberg (ed.)
Category: Culture
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 underminin ...Show more
David Hume Kennerly on the IPhoneSecrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer by Kennerly, David Hume
Category: Photography
David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone is a series of essays, anecdotes, and tips about how and why he takes pictures. Using only the camera in his iPhone, Kennerly pursued an around the world photo-a-day mission in 2013. Along the way he discovered that paring down his formidable photo arsenal to a single, ...Show more
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society by David Hume; Angela Coventry; Andrew Valls
Category: Reference | Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition Ser.
A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be d ...Show more
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
Category: Reference | Series: Classics Ser.
In the posthumously published "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone - at ti ...Show more
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by J. C. A. (EDT) David; Gaskin Hume
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary by David Hume
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. Eugene F. Miller was Pr ...Show more
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley & David Hume
Category: Culture
We have to look suicide in the face, long and hard, and see what features, what profile, what inherited character traits and wrinkles emerge.' 'This book is not a suicide note. Ten days after Edouard Leve handed in the manuscript of Suicide to his publisher in 2007, he hanged himself in his apart- ment. ...Show more
On Suicide by David Hume
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
People Power: The history and the future of the referendum in Australia by George Williams, David Hume
Category: Politics
From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful republican referendum of 1999, Australians have been cautious about constitutional change, approving only eight out of 44 referendum proposals in just over 100 years – a success rate of about 18%. People Power From the failed attempt ...Show more