(P/B) ENQUIRIES CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS

Παρουσίαση

David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognized at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its writing rather than the matter it contained, 'cast the first part of that work anew in the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding' (1748), and afterwards continued the same process in the second work contained in this volume, the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). Both Enquiries are here reprinted, with an Introduction and Analytical Index by the late L. A. Selby-Bigge, from the posthumous edition (1777) of Hume's Collected Essays. For this new edition, Professor Nidditch has corrected the wording of Selby-Bigge's text in a number of places where he found this to diverge from the 1777 edition or where the 1777 edition itself contains error. In a new section of notes, he gives help over outmoded or ambiguous expressions, technical terms, allusions, and proper names. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
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
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS
I. Of the general Principles of Morals
II. Of Benevolence
III. Of Justice
IV. Of political Society
V. Why Utility pleases
VI. Of Qualities useful to Ourselves
VII. Of Qualities immediately agreeable to Ourselves
VIII. Of Qualities immediately agreeable to Others
IX. Conclusion
APPENDIX
I. Concerning Moral Sentiment
II. Of Self-love
III. Some farther Considerations with regard to Justice
IV. Of some verbal Disputes
A DIALOGUE
ADDITIONAL NOTE TO PAGE 125
NOTES
INDEX