{"product_id":"a-progress-of-sentiments-annette-c-baier-9780674713864","title":"A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise","description":"Annette Baier's aim is to make sense of David Hume's \u003ci\u003eTreatise\u003c\/i\u003e as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was \"True to the End.\" Baier argues that it is not until the end of the \u003ci\u003eTreatise\u003c\/i\u003e that we get his full story about \"truth and falsehood, reason and folly.\" By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work. Baier finds Hume's \u003ci\u003eTreatise on Human Nature\u003c\/i\u003e to be a carefully crafted literary and philosophical work which itself displays a philosophical progress of sentiments. His starting place is an overly abstract intellectualism that deliberately thrusts passions and social concerns into the background. In the three interrelated books of the \u003ci\u003eTreatise\u003c\/i\u003e, his \"self-understander\" proceeds through partial successes and dramatic failures to emerge with new-found optimism, expecting that the \"exact knowledge\" the morally self-conscious anatomist of human nature can acquire will itself improve and correct our vision of morality. Baier describes how, by turning philosophy toward human nature instead of toward God and the universe, Hume initiated a new philosophy, a broader discipline of reflection that can embrace Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault as well as William James and Sigmund Freud. Hume belongs both to our present and to our past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annette C. Baier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674713869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674713864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.13w x 0.80d","brand":"Annette C. Baier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120027889919,"sku":"9780674713864","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_76513941-91d8-4103-936e-a8f33e4010cd.jpg?v=1687412172","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-progress-of-sentiments-annette-c-baier-9780674713864","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}