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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume info

First published 1748

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About this book

Causation, induction and the limits of knowledge.

The author

David Hume

1711–1776 · Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Profession
Philosopher, Economist, Historian
Worked at
Embassy of the United Kingdom, Paris, Advocates Library
Studied at
Edinburgh

Said his Treatise fell 'dead-born from the press'.

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Reading order

Prerequisite: Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes)

Then read: Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)

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Editions

2 editions

First published 1748

Earliest edition listed: 1953 · The Opem court Publishing Co.

  • 1953 · The Opem court Publishing Co.
  • 1956

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Subjects

Philosophy