Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature' - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University, and was Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 2004 to 2007. He is the author of The Sceptical Realism of David Hume (1983), and co-editor of Hume and Hume's Connexions (1994) and Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment (2000). Klappentext Examines the development of Hume's ideas and their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions. Zusammenfassung In this lucid and thorough introduction to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature! John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas! their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions! and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The author and the book; 2. First principles; 3. Causation; 4. Skepticism; 5. Determinism; 6. Passions, sympathy, and others' minds; 7. Motivation: reason and the calm passions; 8. Moral sense, reason, and moral skepticism; 9. The foundations of morals; Bibliography and further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John P Wright, John P. Wright
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521541589
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54158-9
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts; Cambridge Introductions to Key; Cambridge Introductions to Key; Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works