Description
| Product ID: | 9780199596331 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Clarendon Hume Edition Series |
| Title: | David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature |
| Subtitle: | Volume 1: Texts |
| Authors: | Author: David Fate Norton, Mary J. Norton |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of ideas, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, History of ideas |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-01-13 |
