A Treatise of Human Nature
Philosopher David Hume lays out a clear and original vision of our knowledge and understanding of the world, and also of human psychology and morality.
In the Treatise of Human Nature, written in 1739, David Hume lays out his initial vision of our knowledge and understanding of the world, of the nature of our psychology and motivation, and, building on these, of moral and political philosophy. In Book I, Hume considers our understanding of the world. With a keen critical perspective that is ever skeptical about abstract metaphysical claims, he follows other empiricists (such as Locke) in grounding our understanding in experience as the source of all our ideas and of their relations to each other.
- Listening time
- about 23 h 18 min
- Length
- 216,259 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1776
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- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
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- Language
- English
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All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions; and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul.
A Treatise of Human Nature · David Hume
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