The Philosophical Works, Volume 1
David Hume · English
This is the first of four volumes of The Philosophical Works of David Hume, published in Edinburgh by Adam Black and William Tait in 1826, which its…
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This is the first of four volumes of The Philosophical Works of David Hume, published in Edinburgh by Adam Black and William Tait in 1826, which its editor described as the first uniform collection of Hume's philosophical writings. It opens with Hume's short autobiography, an account of his public quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1766, and Hume's list of Scotticisms to avoid in English. The rest of the volume is Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature, first published in 1739, which treats the origin of ideas, space and time, knowledge, probability and causation, and scepticism and personal identity.
The Philosophical Works, Volume 1
David Hume · English
This is the first of four volumes of The Philosophical Works of David Hume, published in Edinburgh by Adam Black and William Tait in 1826, which its…
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The Philosophical Writings of Mr Hume are here for the first time collected in a uniform edition. The Essays are reprinted from the Edition of 1777, in two octavo volumes, corrected by the Author for the press, a short time before his death, and which he desired might be regarded as containing his philosophical principles. The text of that Edition has been faithfully adhered to in the present; but as it has been thought an interesting object of curiosity, to trace the successive variations of sentiment and taste in a mind like that of Hume, and to mark the gradual and most observable increase
Pagera Editor's Note
This is the first of four volumes of The Philosophical Works of David Hume, published in Edinburgh by Adam Black and William Tait in 1826, which its editor described as the first uniform collection of Hume's philosophical writings. It opens with Hume's short autobiography, an account of his public quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1766, and Hume's list of Scotticisms to avoid in English. The rest of the volume is Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature, first published in 1739, which treats the origin of ideas, space and time, knowledge, probability and causation, and scepticism and personal identity.
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