An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hardcover

Hume, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9355222742 ISBN 13: 9789355222749

Verlag: Classy Publishing, 2023

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David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is one of the most influential books in Western philosophy. Seeking to replace confusing metaphysics with clear, common-sense observation, Hume dismantles traditional assumptions about cause, effect, and proof. Instead, he argues that human knowledge is built entirely on experience, custom, and psychological habit.

What You Will Discover Inside:
In this clear and provocative masterpiece, Hume explores the vital questions of human cognition:

• The Origin of Ideas: How simple sensory impressions shape every complex thought and memory we possess.
• The Problem of Induction: Why we cannot logically prove that the future will resemble the past—and why we rely on habit anyway.
• Liberty and Necessity: A groundbreaking look at free will and determinism, showing how both are fully compatible.
• Miracles and Religion: A famous, skeptical critique of testimony that contradicts the fixed laws of nature.
• The Value of Skepticism: How a calm, open-minded approach protects us from superstition and false philosophy.

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David Hume (7 May 1711 NS - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, student of history, economist, librarian, and writer. He is most popular for his profoundly persuasive philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. argued against the presence of intrinsic thoughts, positing that all human information derives solely from experience. He studied philosophy at the College of Edinburgh at an abnormally early age of 12 or 13. Hume never wedded and resided partly at his Berwickshire home in Chirnside, which had a place with his family beginning around 1604. Hume's doctor determined him to have the "Sickness of the Learned" after he created scurvy and different maladies. He was secretary to General James St Clair, who was an emissary to Turin and Vienna. Hume wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in 1738 and The History of England in 1754. In 1745, during the Jacobite risings, Hume mentored the Marquess of Annandale (1720-92), an engagement that finished in confusion. He is viewed as one of the main philosophers to write in English. The David Hume Tower, a University of Edinburgh building, was renamed in a protest over his writing on race.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Classy Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9355222742
• ISBN 13: 9789355222749
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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