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1 online resource (676 unnumbered pages) |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. From Ancient to Modern Cosmology -- 2. From Aristotelian to Cartesian Intelligibility -- 3. Corpuscularianism, Locke, and Newton -- 4. Free Will, and the Dangers of Infidelity -- 5. God's Design, and Human Reason -- 6. Inertness, Malebranche, and Berkeley -- 7. The Humean Revolution -- 8. Section I: The Aims of the Enquiry -- 9. Sections II and III: The Origin and Association of Ideas -- 10. Section IV: Hume's Fork -- 11. Sections IV and V: The Basis of Factual Reasoning -- 12. Section VI: 'Of Probability' -- 13. Section VII: 'Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion' -- 14. Section VIII: 'Of Liberty and Necessity' -- 15. Section IX: 'Of the Reason of Animals' -- 16. Section X: 'Of Miracles' -- 17. Section XI: 'Of a Particular Providence, and of a Future State' -- 18. Section XII: 'Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy' -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of David Hume -- AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING -- Advertisement -- I. Of the different Species of Philosophy -- II. Of the Origin of Ideas -- III. Of the Association of Ideas -- IV. Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding -- V. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts -- VI. Of Probability -- VII. Of the Idea of necessary Connexion -- VIII. Of Liberty and Necessity -- IX. Of the Reason of Animals -- X. Of Miracles -- XI. Of a particular Providence and of a future State -- XII. Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy -- Hume's Endnotes -- Appendix I: Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature (1740) -- Appendix II: 'Of the Immortality of the Soul' (printed 1755) -- Appendix III: Excerpts from Parts I and II of the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) -- Appendix IV: Excerpts from Hume's Letters -- Appendix V: 'My Own Life' -- Textual Variants |
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Explanatory Notes -- Glossary -- Glossarial Index of Major Philosophers and Philosophical Movements -- Hume's Index -- Index of Major Themes, Concepts, and Examples -- Index of Names Mentioned in the Enquiry -- Index of References to Hume's Works -- Footnotes |
| Summary |
The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought and argues that we should liberate ourselves from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics and religion. This edition places the work in its historical and philosophical context. - ;'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.'. Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion' of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash. The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought, reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate understanding of the physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience, recognizing our animal nature and the limits of reason. Hume's calm and open-minded scepticism thus aims to provide a new basis for science, liberating us from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics and religion. His Enquiry. remains one of the best introductions to the study of philosophy, and this edition places it in its historical and philosophical context. - |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2018) |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Millican, P. J. R
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| ISBN |
0191526355 |
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9780191526350 |
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9780199211586 |
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0199211582 |
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