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(P/B) AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
About Hume: David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; he had broad interests not only in philosophy as it is now conceived but in history, politics, economics, religion, and the arts. He was a master of English prose. About the CLARENDON HUME EDITION: The Clarendon Hume will include all of his works except his H...
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(P/B) POLITICAL WRITINGS
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches. Edited by Stuart Warner and Donald Livingston. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS
The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar re...
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(P/B) DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION
Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay "Of Miracles" has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes "Of the Immortality of the Soul," "Of Suicide," and Richard Popkin's illuminating Introduction. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS
A splendid edition. Schneewind' illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Hume' ethical naturalism. -Martha C. Nussbaum, Brown University...
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(P/B) AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar re...
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Η ΔΙΚΗ ΜΟΥ ΖΩΗ
Στις 19 Φεβρουαρίου 2015 ο διάσημος νευρολόγος και συγγραφέας Όλιβερ Σακς, στα ογδονταένα του χρόνια, ανακοινώνει την απρόσμενη διάγνωση των γιατρών για τον επικείμενο θάνατό του. Δημοσιεύει ένα κείμενο με τίτλο «Η δική μου ζωή», όπου δανείζεται τον τίτλο από αντίστοιχο κείμενο του Ντέηβιντ Χιούμ του 1776, στο οποίο ο μεγάλος φιλόσοφος ανακοίνωνε κι αυτός μια αντίστοιχη διάγνωση των γιατρών στα εξηνταπέντε του χρόνια. Ο Χιούμ, γράφοντας ένα αυτοβιογραφικό κομμάτι, συνέταξε ταυτόχρονα ένα μανιφέστο για τη φιλοσοφία του. Και οι δύο πραγματεύ...
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(P/B) A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
Hume's Treatise was published before he was thirty (after its publication in 1739-40 he wrote that it 'fell dead-born from the press'). It is nothing less than an attempt to extend the Copernican Revolution to philosophy - to put to the test of experience a complete system of the moral sciences which had hitherto gone unquestioned. But Hume was no rationalist: from his viewpoint of informed scepticism he could see man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite. With justice...
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A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
"Nothing is more curiously enquired after . . . than the causes of every phenomenon. . . . [We] push on our enquiries, till we arrive at the original and ultimate principle. . . . This is our aim in all our studies and reflections." These words sum up David Hume's plan: To discover the fundamental principles at work in the nature and extent of human knowledge, and in so doing to gain a clearer understanding of our perception, ideas (e.g. of cause and effect), impressions, beliefs, passions, virtues, and vices. Hume's piercing critique and ...
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(P/B) THE LETTERS OF DAVID HUME, 1766-1776 (VOLUME 2)
J. Y. T. Greig's two-volume edition, first published in 1932, presents the correspondence of one of the great men of the 18th century. This second volume contains David Hume's letters from 1766 to 1776. Hume correspondents include such famous thinkers and public figures as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, James Boswell, and Benjamin Franklin. The edition offers a rich picture of the man and his age, and is a uniquely valuable resource to anyone with an interest in early modern thought. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE LETTERS OF DAVID HUME, 1727-1765 (VOLUME 1)
J. Y. T. Greig's two-volume edition, first published in 1932, presents the correspondence of one of the great men of the 18th century. This first volume contains David Hume's letters from 1727 to 1765. Hume correspondents include such famous thinkers and public figures as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, James Boswell, and Benjamin Franklin. The edition offers a rich picture of the man and his age, and is a uniquely valuable resource to anyone with an interest in early modern thought. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OR MORALS
Judging it to be "of all my writings incomparably the best," Hume accurately assessed this groundbreaking classic, which continues to influence philosophical thinking on ethics to this day through the force of its ideas and its clarity of expression. Among the many insights that Hume expounds in this work is that morality is grounded in feelings, not in knowledge. Based on moral sentiment, people naturally value agreeable qualities and shun disagreeable ones. On closer analysis, Hume concludes that the feeling of agreeableness comes from a...
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DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION
'Were this world ever so perfect a production, it must still remain uncertain, whether all the excellences of the work can justly be ascribed to the workman' In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone - at times even tactfully ambiguous - the conversations between Hume's vividly realized fict...
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AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
How do we come to have ideas about the world and about the relationships of objects we perceive therein? Is all impressed upon the senses from outside or does the human mind have a significant role to play in how such concepts as "causality," "probability," "necessity," "contingency," "miracles," and others are to be understood? If so, what is the nature and extent of that role? In this classic work of early modern epistemology, Hume offers important insights about how we come to understand and have knowledge of our world and, in so doing,...
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DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION

(P/B) APPLIED ETHICS
This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Ha...
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(P/B) MORAL PHILOSOPHY

(P/B) AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
'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...
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