David Hume: A Treatise Of Human Nature (volume 1: Texts)

Edited by Norton David Fate; Edited by Norton Mary J.
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David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume''s Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. The first volume contains the critical text of David Hume''s Treatise of Human Nature, followed by the short Abstract and concluding with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh.
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David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume''s Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740) in which Hume set out the key arguments of the larger work; the volume concludes with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh (1745), Hume''s defence of the Treatise when it was under attack from ministers seeking to prevent Hume''s appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Table of contents
A Note on the Texts ; Contents of A Treatise of Human Nature ; A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE ; An Abstract of ... A Treatise of Human Nature ; A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh
Biographical note
David Fate Norton is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Mary J. Norton is a retired teacher and librarian
Publisher''s notice
David Fate Norton is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Mary J. Norton is a retired teacher and librarian
Feature
One of the great classics of Western thought A towering landmark of philosophical scholarship The definitive edition of David Hume''s most celebrated work The long-awaited centrepiece of the Clarendon Hume
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One of the great classics of Western thought A towering landmark of philosophical scholarship The definitive edition of David Hume''s most celebrated work The long-awaited centrepiece of the Clarendon Hume