David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature

Zusatztext ...useful far beyond the small circle of scholarly experts... The Treatise has a fair claim to be the most important and influential philosophical text ever written in English... After more than 250 years, Hume is still at the front line of philosophical inquiry... This edition belongs in any university or college library anywhere in the world, and its publication will certainly excite more than a murmur among philosophers and scholars. Informationen zum Autor David Norton, FRSC, Macdonald Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, McGill University and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria. He is author of David Hume: Common-Sense Moralist, Sceptical Metaphysician (1982), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hume (1993), and, with Mary J. Norton, an independent scholar, co-author of The Hume Library (1996). Klappentext David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume's Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. The first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740) in which Hume set out the key arguments of the larger work; the volume concludes with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh (1745), Hume's later defence of the Treatise. Zusammenfassung Contains the text of David Hume's "Treatise of Human Nature" followed by the short abstract in which Hume sets out the arguments of the larger work. The volume concludes with "A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh", Hume's defence of the "Treatise". Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on the Texts Contents of A Treatise of Human Nature A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE An Abstract of ... A Treatise of Human Nature A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Hume
• Mitarbeit: Norton David Fate (Herausgeber), Norton Mary J. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.06.2007
• EAN: 9780199263837
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926383-7
• Seiten: 431
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Serien: Clarendon Hume Edition Series; Print on Demand
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought