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    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature: And Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature: And Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature: And Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature
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    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature: And Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature

    By David Hume and Thom Chittom

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    This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic who continues to fascinate contemporary minds. The product of both youthful fire and mature consideration, the Enquiry, "contain[s] everything of Consequence relating to the understanding." In the face of skepticism, the Enquiry offered progress based on experience. In a time of dogmatism, the Enquiry dissected the basis of religious faith and delivered a still-powerful critique. It endeavors to be nothing less than the construction of an anatomy of human nature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 13, 2012
    ISBN9781411467910
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature: And Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature
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    David Hume

    David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published. Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume’s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.

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