The Routledge Guidebook to Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

Produktbeschreibung

An engaging introduction to one of the most significant works of philosophy. Written for readers approaching Hume's work for the first time, it is essential reading for undergraduate students studying the history of modern philosophy, and all those who wish to engage more deeply with this classic work. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Citations to Primary Literature
Introduction 1. Of Ideas, Their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction,
Etc. 2. Of the Ideas of Space and Time 3. Of Knowledge and Probability 4. Of the
Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy 5. Of Pride and Humility, Love and
Hatred 6. Of the Will and Direct Passions 7. Of Virtue and Vice in General 8. Of
Justice 9. Of the Other Virtues and Vices. Bibliography Index 

Autoreninfo

P. J. E. Kail is Official Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Peter's College, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of, among other things, Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy (2007), Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Knowledge (2014), and Simply Nietzsche (2019).