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Hume: A Very Short Introduction (New Edition)
Hume: A Very Short Introduction (New Edition)

Hume: A Very Short Introduction (New Edition)

Author: 
James A. Harris
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  • Offers a clear account of the contributions to philosophy made by a key thinker in the field
  • Covers Hume's main interests of human nature, morality, politics, and religion, and explores the philosophical questions that remain at the heart of the subject today
  • Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field
  • Weaves together biography, the historical context, and exposition of Hume's arguments

  
David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the rivalrous passions of commercial life at the centre of his theory of human nature. He believed that the modern world was in many ways superior to the ancient world, but was acutely conscious of the threats to peace and progress posed by bigotry, factionalism, and imperialism. Today Hume's works continue to speak to us powerfully in an age of instability and uncertainty.
   
This Very Short Introduction presents a balanced account of Hume's thought, giving equal attention to his work on human nature, morality, politics, and religion. Weaving together biography, the historical context, and a thoughtful exposition of Hume's arguments, James A. Harris offers a compelling picture of a thinker who had no disciples and formed no school, but whom no one in his own time was able to ignore, and who has since become central to modern philosophy's understanding of itself.

Index: 

Introduction
1:Human nature
2:Morality
3:Politics
4:Religion
Postscript
References
Further reading

About the author: 

James A. Harris is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he has taught since 2004. He is the author of the acclaimed Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and of many articles and book chapters on aspects of Hume's thought. He has also written widely on British philosophy in the eighteenth century, and has edited texts by Reid (with Knud Haakonnsen), Kames, Beattie, and Abraham Tucker. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2012-13, and in 2018 gave the Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy at Boston University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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ISBN : 9780198849780

Author: 
James A. Harris
Pages
144 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
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Hume: A Very Short Introduction (New Edition)

Hume: A Very Short Introduction (New Edition)

Hume: A Very Short Introduction (New Edition)