The essential David Hume.
By: Edited with an introd. by Robert Paul Wolff.
Contributors: Wolff, Robert Paul, ed.
Series: A Mentor book, MY896
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: David Hume (1711-76) is the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and, to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. Of all of Hume's writings, the philosophically most profound is undoubtedly his first, "A Treatise on Human Nature." "Hume on Morality" introduces and assesses: Hume's life and the background of the "Treatise"; the ideas and text in the "Treatise"; and Hume's continuing importance to philosophy.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.