Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199271146)

This is the first full book-length study in forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding-which, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, aiming to raise it to its rightful position in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often assumed, a mere collection of watered-down extracts from the earlier work. It is, rather, a coherent work with a unified argument; and, when this argument is grasped as a whole, the Enquiry shows itself to be the best introduction to the features of its author's general philosophy.

Author: Stephen Buckle
ISBN-10: 0199271143
ISBN-13: 9780199271146
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2004
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.20w x 0.77d