An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume, an empiricist philosopher, takes on perhaps one of the most challenging of conceivable problems in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Moving beyond Descartes classic statement, I think, therefore I am, Hume addresses issues of knowing that fall outside the realms of active...
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David Hume, an empiricist philosopher, takes on perhaps one of the most challenging of conceivable problems in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Moving beyond Descartes classic statement, I think, therefore I am, Hume addresses issues of knowing that fall outside the realms of active thought or incremental learning. While innumerable philosophers discuss various aspects of experience, Hume stands alone in his successful treatise on the nature of experience itself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781461180197 (1461180198)
Publish date: October 23rd 2013
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 82
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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