Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Subtitle: The Unity and Purpose of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 26, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780198250883
Description: "Hume's Enlightenment Tract is the first full study for forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. The Enquiry has, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor. A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, and aims to raise it to its rightful position in Hume's work and in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often assumed, a mere collection of watered-down extracts from the earlier work. It is, rather, a coherent work with a unified argument; and, when this argument is grasped as a whole, the Enquiry shows itself to be the best introduction to the lineaments of its author's general philosophy."--Jacket.