Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise

Name: Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise
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ISBN: 9781405115087

ISBN-10: 1405115084

ISBN-13: 9781405115087

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Saul Traiger

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This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy. A student guide to Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature. Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship. Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy. All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.

Book details

List price: $154.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


References to the Treatise, Abstract, and Enquiries


Editor's Introduction



Formulation, Reception, and Scope of the Treatise



The Treatise: Composition, Reception, and Response




Hume's Other Writings




The Understanding



Impressions and Ideas




Space and Time




Belief, Probability, Normativity




Causation




Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World




Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy




Hume's Conclusions in "Conclusion of this Book"




The Passions



The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions




Hume's "New and Extraordinary" Account of the Passions




Liberty, Necessity, and the Will




Morals



Reason, Passion, and the Influencing Motives of the Will




Hume's Artificial and Natural Virtues




Virtue and the Evaluation of Character



Index