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"This is the best edition around, especially for its glossary, index and the inclusion of the 'Abstract.'"--Professor Forrest Williams, University of Colorado
"This is the best edition available with an excellent index and notes!"--George Aigla, St. Johns College
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A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and to form compelling but unconfirmable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they apply to human choices and actions, and concludes with detailed explanations of how we distinguish between virtue and vice and of the different kinds of virtue. Hume's Abstract of the Treatise, also included in the volume, outlines his 'chief argument' regarding our conception of, and belief in, cause and effect. The texts printed in this volume are those of the critical edition of Hume's philosophical works now being published by the Clarendon Press. The volume includes a substantial introduction explaining the aims of the Treatise as a whole and of each of its ten parts, extensive annotations, a glossary of terms, a comprehensive index, and suggestions for further reading.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a student on a budget, I thought it was pretty cruel of my university to insist on this edition. The editor's introduction is informative but not exactly inspiring, and the other 'extras' (annotations, glossary, references, index) I would have thought of as par for the course with a text like this.
The annotation system is a nightmare to navigate as it doesn't work with numbers or page references, only superscript daggers - you have to skip to the back of the book, find the relevant section and then skim until you find the right word reference. It's particularly annoying when the only enlightenment you get is 'Hume discussed this in the last section' or something along those lines.
Finally, because this is a relatively recent edition (or at least more so when I bought it in September 2010) it was difficult to come by any second hand copies. My verdict? Don't fork out for this if you can get a different edition cheaper; the supposed perks in this really aren't worth the money.
The annotation system is a nightmare to navigate as it doesn't work with numbers or page references, only superscript daggers - you have to skip to the back of the book, find the relevant section and then skim until you find the right word reference. It's particularly annoying when the only enlightenment you get is 'Hume discussed this in the last section' or something along those lines.
Finally, because this is a relatively recent edition (or at least more so when I bought it in September 2010) it was difficult to come by any second hand copies. My verdict? Don't fork out for this if you can get a different edition cheaper; the supposed perks in this really aren't worth the money.
28 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The german philosopher Kant used to say that was David Hume who had waked him up from the sleep of the dogmatic metaphysics. Nowhere but in this book we can feel such a force, increased by the vigour of the youth. In the peak of a english tradition in empirism, with origins in William of Ockham, Hume attacks in his Treatise each one of the fundamentals thesis of the traditional metaphysiscs: he denies the immortality of the soul, the certainty of a external world, the reality of the space, the existence of substances and (that's his most famous insight) the necessity of the law of causality. All these remarks will prepare the soil to the great revolution of Kant as well as the epistemology of Sir Karl Popper.
8 of 93 people found the following review helpful
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Having only ordered this work, I cannot contribute an opinion of quality or content. Sad as I am, this will comprise part of my holiday reading. My contention is that the work is described as a major contribution to the tome of English philosophy. Most will be aware of it as the major work of the nascent Scottish Enlightenment.
Sorry to be so pernickety.
Sorry to be so pernickety.
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