Essays - Hume, David

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Résumé :
A brisk, probing voice from eighteenth-century Britain speaks to our own era-clear-eyed, humane, and relentlessly curious. This is not a single doctrine but a generous essay collection that wanders through human nature, reason and passion, and the friction between scepticism and empiricism. David Hume's non fiction essays illuminate how minds work, why beliefs endure, and how social life binds us all. The book offers a compact tour of moral philosophy essays, a keen human nature analysis, and reflections that read like a modern study aid for scholars and students who crave thoughtful discussion prompts. Readers will find lively explorations that remain surprisingly contemporary, inviting casual readers and classic-literature lovers alike to a thoughtful conversation about how we know what we think we know. Historically, the work sits at the heart of the Scottish enlightenment era and the wider currents of eighteenth century britain, with influence rippling through later thinkers such as Montaigne's spirit of self-scrutiny and Adam Smith's social imagination. Its significance extends beyond philosophy to its cultural resonance as a touchstone for skeptical inquiry and ethical reflection. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this edition is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, ready to inspire classroom discussions, thoughtful rereads, and new conversations about the way we live, think, and reason....

Biographie:
David Hume (7 May 1711 NS - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, student of history, economist, librarian, and writer. He is most popular for his profoundly persuasive philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. argued against the presence of intrinsic thoughts, positing that all human information derives solely from experience. He studied philosophy at the College of Edinburgh at an abnormally early age of 12 or 13. Hume never wedded and resided partly at his Berwickshire home in Chirnside, which had a place with his family beginning around 1604. Hume's doctor determined him to have the Sickness of the Learned after he created scurvy and different maladies. He was secretary to General James St Clair, who was an emissary to Turin and Vienna. Hume wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in 1738 and The History of England in 1754. In 1745, during the Jacobite risings, Hume mentored the Marquess of Annandale (1720-92), an engagement that finished in confusion. He is viewed as one of the main philosophers to write in English. The David Hume Tower, a University of Edinburgh building, was renamed in a protest over his writing on race....

Sommaire:
David Hume (7 May 1711 NS - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, student of history, economist, librarian, and writer. He is most popular for his profoundly persuasive philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. argued against the presence of intrinsic thoughts, positing that all human information derives solely from experience. He studied philosophy at the College of Edinburgh at an abnormally early age of 12 or 13. Hume never wedded and resided partly at his Berwickshire home in Chirnside, which had a place with his family beginning around 1604. Hume's doctor determined him to have the Sickness of the Learned after he created scurvy and different maladies. He was secretary to General James St Clair, who was an emissary to Turin and Vienna. Hume wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in 1738 and The History of England in 1754. In 1745, during the Jacobite risings, Hume mentored the Marquess of Annandale (1720-92), an engagement that finished in confusion. He is viewed as one of the main philosophers to write in English. The David Hume Tower, a University of Edinburgh building, was renamed in a protest over his writing on race....