David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume 1: Texts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199263837)

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.

Author: David Fate Norton
ISBN-10: 0199263833
ISBN-13: 9780199263837
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2007
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 9.39h x 6.47w x 1.19d