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An enquiry concerning human understanding /

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 ca...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hume, David, 1711-1776
Otros Autores: Millican, P. J. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Colección:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
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  • 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.
  • 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.