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 (S

Title: 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 (S
Author: David Hume
F: 1702880
ISBN: 0872202291
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Second Edition,2
Number of Pages: 160
Section: Philosophy | Epistemology
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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.