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1. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume | |
Paperback: 96
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(2006-01-01)
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Good book
Great writing style, but that's about it
Should not be read alone
Excellent.
Hume at his best |
2. Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics) by David Hume | |
Paperback: 448
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(2008-08-01)
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My son loved this
Move Over Montaigne
Excellent View of Hume
Highly entertaining corpus of essays
Fine selection of essays by a great man |
3. The History of England, Volume I by David Hume | |
Paperback: 402
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(2010-07-06)
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4. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. - From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume | |
Paperback: 280
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(2010-07-12)
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5. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide by David Hume, Richard H. Popkin | |
Paperback: 129
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(1998-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every part. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ****************** Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design -- for which Hume uses a house -- and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (argument from evil). Hume started writing the Dialogues in 1750 but did not complete them until 1776, shortly before his death. They are based partly on Cicero's De Natura Deorum. The Dialogues were published posthumously in 1779, originally with neither the author's nor the publisher's name. - Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM) All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99 Search for any title: enter mobi (shortened MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Shakespeare Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church's Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails, Astrology Reference: The World's Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals Customer Reviews (10)
Even before Darwin, it was unreasonable to be a theist.
solid
One of those books often cited but not necessarily read
Slender paperback stuffed with ideas
Classic statement of arguments against God's existence |
6. A treatise on human nature; being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects; and, Dialogues concerning natural religion by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose | |
Paperback: 600
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(2010-09-06)
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Reason is the slave of the passions
Reason is the slave of the passions
Reason is the slave of the passions
Reason is the slave of the passions
Reason is the slave of the passions |
7. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. - From the Britons of Early Times to King John by David Hume | |
Paperback: 404
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(2010-07-12)
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8. The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner | |
Paperback: 738
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(2001-05-03)
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ONE OF THE BEST, PERHAPS THE BEST, BIOGRAPHY OF HUME
Great book (but lousy printing) Anyway, these are trivial matters.The book itself is very good.I consider it complementary to Norman Kemp Smith's study of Hume's philosophy, as it focuses on Hume the man rather than his philosophy.As Sir James Jeans said, the biography of a philosopher is not irrelevant to his thought, and Hume is no exception. (This is less true of natural scientists.)Mossner's book is particularly helpful in answering my own questions about Hume's religious views - a topic of the most controversial sort even in his own day. I'm very impressed that Mossner pointed out the fact that Hume had inspired Einstein on his road to relativity.This little known fact was always very important in my own estimate of the great philosopher. Here's the irony.Hume wrote his masterpiece in France, which remained the only place where he was really appreciated.Back in Scotland, he could not even find a proper job.And now, the best 20th century biography (there are good 19th century biographies) of Hume was written not by a Scotsman or even an Englishman, but by a Texan (probably) of Jewish descent.What have all these Edinburgh professors (excepting Smith, of course) been doing all these years?Given the primary sources at their disposal, why didn't they just pick up the pen to reconstruct the life of Scotland's - even Britain's - greatest non-scientific thinker?One suspects that to this day Hume is still under-appreciated in Scotland. Mossner's biography of Hume is a labor of love.
Fine Biography
THE life of the extraordinary scottish philosopher |
9. Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by David Hume | |
Paperback: 278
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(2007-03-05)
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10. Political Writings by David Hume | |
Paperback: 258
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(1994-07)
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11. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (mobi) by David Hume | |
Kindle Edition: 129
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(2009-01-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every part. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ****************** Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design -- for which Hume uses a house -- and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (argument from evil). Hume started writing the Dialogues in 1750 but did not complete them until 1776, shortly before his death. They are based partly on Cicero's De Natura Deorum. The Dialogues were published posthumously in 1779, originally with neither the author's nor the publisher's name. - Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. More e-Books from MobileReference - Best Books. Best Price. Best Search and Navigation (TM) All fiction books are only $0.99. All collections are only $5.99 Search for any title: enter mobi (shortened MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Shakespeare Literary Classics: Over 10,000 complete works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Dickens, Tolstoy, and other authors. All books feature hyperlinked table of contents, footnotes, and author biography. Books are also available as collections, organized by an author. Collections simplify book access through categorical, alphabetical, and chronological indexes. They offer lower price, convenience of one-time download, and reduce clutter of titles in your digital library. Religion: The Illustrated King James Bible, American Standard Bible, World English Bible (Modern Translation), Mormon Church's Sacred Texts Philosophy: Rousseau, Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Engels Travel Guides and Phrasebooks for All Major Cities: New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Beijing, Greece Medical Study Guides: Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Abbreviations and Terminology, Human Nervous System, Biochemistry College Study Guides: FREE Weight and Measures, Physics, Math, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Statistics, Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology History: Art History, American Presidents, U.S. History, Encyclopedias of Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt Health: Acupressure Guide, First Aid Guide, Art of Love, Cookbook, Cocktails, Astrology Reference: The World's Biggest Mobile Encyclopedia; CIA World Factbook, Illustrated Encyclopedias of Birds, Mammals |
12. Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume | |
Paperback: 458
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(1975-06-12)
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Hume at his best
A Classic Edition of Two Philosophical Masterworks The connecting thread here is an emphasis on grounding philosophical inquiry in an empirical account of human nature, and particularly of the human mind.The first Enquiry is an account of Hume's take on the implications of the classical empiricism he inherited from Locke and Berkeley.For Hume, as for the other classical empiricists, empiricism was primarily a psychological theory about the origin and content of our concepts.(So empiricism, Hume thought, is a crucial element of any plausible account of the human mind.)The central tenet of this theory is that our concepts are furnished by experience, which includes both sensory experience and introspection (i.e., the experience of our own mental states).And the empiricists also agreed about the way we can justify our beliefs.Some beliefs are true (or false) in virtue of the ideas they contained, and we can know their truth (or falsity) simply by thinking about them; other beliefs are true (or false) in virtue of how the external world is, and we can know their truth (or falsity) only by drawing on our experiences of the world.According to Hume, all substantial conclusions about the world fall into this second category.That is, the truth (or falsity) of all substantial claims about the existence and nature of things in the external world can be discovered only by checking those claims against the evidence of our senses. Here we seem Hume wielding this philosophy of mind in order to adjudicate disputes in metaphysics and epistemology.Do you want to know whether something can be known?Then think about the concepts in which it is expressed.Could we come to know this by thinking about the meaning of our concepts?Could we come to know it by going and looking or doing certain empirical tests?If the answer to both these questions is no, then knowledge of this subject is an impossibility for us.Do you want to know whether some claim of the metaphysicians is true or whether it even makes sense?Consider the concepts they use to express their views.Is there any way you could reduce the content of this concept to some experience?If not, their claims are literally meaningless. This interpretation of Hume's project downplays his skepticism and emphasizes his professed intentions to provide a positive account of the operation of the human mind that appealed to nothing beyond the evidence of our senses.According to proponents of this interpretation, Hume is most interested in a description of the operation of the human mind.He's describing what human nature allows us to know and what it doesn't allow us to know.Furthermore, he argues that our nature is such that, where it fails to provide us with the resources to acquire the knowledge we might want, it provides us with a natural habit of forming the right conclusions anyway.Even though our nature limits our knowledge of the world, it ensures that we possess the habits of mind needed to make our way in the world.Hume dubs all these habits of mind "custom." And I think this naturalistic interpretation of Hume's project provides an entry into the views he defends in the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.Again, it's possible to interpret Hume's project in moral philosophy as a skeptical one.The fact that he thinks morality is based in human sentiments show that he is, in some sense, a subjectivist about morality.He doesn't think there is any plausible account of our moral thinking as based on reason or empirical inquiry alone.Morality, then, is more a matter of feeling than a matter of thinking, observing, and reasoning. But, importantly, Hume doesn't think this is indicative of some problem with morality, and so he doesn't understand himself to be undermining ordinary morality.His aim is to expose the groundless pretensions of reason in order to make room for a wholly naturalistic account morality; it's not to show that morality doesn't have a firm basis.For he does not think that morality would ideally be based on reason and empirical evidence rather than sentiment.Rather, he thinks there is a sort of philosophical overreaching involved in trying to base morality on reason or empirical evidence as opposed to sentiment. But what is the relevant sentiment? According to Hume, it is a general sort of benevolence, of concern for others.Our possessing such a feeling does not mean that we'll always set aside our own interest in the interest of others; nor does it mean that we are not largely self-interested.It does, however, mean that we're not wholly self-interested, as we are motivated to do (and not do) certain things even when they do not affect our own interests and desires.But what inspires these sentiments, and how exactly do they translate into moral judgments?Morality, Hume argues, is based on sentiments of approbation and disapprobation that are prompted by a recognition of the connection between human actions, dispositions, etc. and what is in the best interest of oneself and of mankind in general.What we take to be virtues, Hume argues, are those dispositions that lead a person to perform actions tending to promote his own happiness and the happiness of others, whereas vices are dispositions that do the opposite.
A must read!A great classic literary achievement .
Fascinating asymmetrical paradigmatically-oriented concept |
13. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume | |
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Excellent Kindle edition |
14. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume | |
Paperback: 96
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(2010-03-07)
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Human Understanding -- if not by logic, how does Hume "know" all this?
Not An Ending, But A Beginning
Descartes' Ultimate Error
Hume at his best
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15. The Essential Works of David Hume by David Hume | |
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16. Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume | |
Paperback: 256
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(2009-04-15)
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Immortal philosopher
Great book!
Dynamite
A Must,A Classic, etc.
A philosopher thinks about God's existence |
17. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume | |
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18. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Classic Reprint) by David Hume | |
Paperback: 338
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(2010-09-20)
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Essential reading; confrontation is not a bad thing
To Hume it may concern
Apologetics Concerning the Nature of Religion
Does God exist?
Is God Knowable By Reason? |
19. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Morality (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) by James Baillie | |
Paperback: 240
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(2000-07-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description James Baillie provides us with a map to Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise, focusing on Hume's theory of the passions and morality. This book sets out its principal ideas and arguments of the Treatise in a clear and readable way and is ideal for anyone coming to Hume's work for the first time. |
20. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. by David Hume | |
Paperback: 404
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(2010-07-12)
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