1st Edition

David Hume: His Theory of Knowledge and Morality

By D.G.C. MacNabb Copyright 1951
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1951, is an examination of Hume’s ‘Treatise of Human Nature’, ‘An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals’, and ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’. It lucidly clarifies and makes alive the new discoveries of Hume’s works in a study that makes plain the importance of this philosopher to the world today.

1. The Doctrine of Impressions and Ideas  2. Abstract Ideas  3. Knowledge and Probability  4. Causality  5. Belief  6. Probability  7. Necessary Connexion  8. Bodies  9. Minds  10. The Servitude of Reason  11. The Artificiality of Justice  12. Sympathy and the Natural Virtues

Biography

D.G.C. MacNabb