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The pursuits of philosophy : an introduction to the life and thought of David Hume /

Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume's autobiography together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these per...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Baier, Annette
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Childhood and youth: loss of faith and a passion for literature
  • "At a distance from relations": writing his treatise in France
  • Hume after the treatise
  • Hume as librarian and historian
  • Hume's life as a man in the public eye
  • Hume's final years in Edinburgh
  • Death and character.