An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. In "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" Hume discusses the weakness that humans have in their abilities to comprehend the world around them, what is referred to in the title as...
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Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. In "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" Hume discusses the weakness that humans have in their abilities to comprehend the world around them, what is referred to in the title as human understanding. This work, now commonly required reading in philosophy classes, exposed a broad audience to philosophy when it was first published. A great introduction to the philosophy of David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and the ideas within it are as intriguing today as when they were first written.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781420926996 (1420926993)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Digireads.com
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Science,
Philosophy,
College,
Psychology,
Metaphysics,
18th Century
Hume is about as level-headed as they come. He is not interested in proving things, he just wants to be honest about what we can even attempt to understand. Some things can be understood intuitively or demonstratively. Like geometry, algebra or anything else discoverable by thought alone. Then t...
this is my second time I have read this book , and I think there is going to be third , because this book is an ocean of thoughts , you do not get enough of it , in my opinion here where all human thinking came from , later Philosopher get their philosophy from here also , specially Kant .
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