An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (with Hume's Abstract Of A Treatise Of Human Nature And A Letter From A Gentleman To His Friend In Edinburgh)

By (author) David Hume; By (author) Hume David; Edited by Steinberg Eric
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A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume''s Enquiry Concerning Human Understandingaccompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh and his Abstract of A Treatise on Human Nature.

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A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume''s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh , Hume''s response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature , which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry . In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led Hume to write the Enquiry and the work''s important relationship to Book I of Hume''s A Treatise of Human Nature .
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