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1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) |
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Blackwell guides to great works ; 5 |
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Blackwell guides to great works.
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| Contents |
The Treatise: composition, reception, and response / John P. Wright -- Hume's other writings / Wade L. Robison -- Impressions and ideas / Janet Broughton -- Space and time / Lorne Falkenstein -- Belief, probability, normativity / William Edward Morris -- Causation / Abraham Sesshu Roth -- Identity, continued existence, and the external world / Donald L.M. Baxter -- Personal identity and the skeptical system of philosophy / Corliss Gayda Swain |
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Hume's conclusions in "conclusion of this book" / Don Garrett -- The powers and mechanisms of the passions / Lilli Alanen -- Hume's "new and extraordinary" account of the passions / Jane L. McIntyre -- Liberty, necessity, and the will / Tony Pitson -- Reason, passion, and the influencing motives of the will / Mikael M. Karlsson -- Hume's artificial and natural virtues / Rachel Cohon -- Virtue and the evaluation of character / Jacqueline Taylor |
| Summary |
David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" is one of the important works of philosophy. This guide aims to provide students with the interpretive tools needed to begin mining Hume's "Treatise" for philosophical insight. It covers such topics as: the formulation, reception, and scope of the "Treatise"; imagination and memory; and space and time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.
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Hume, David. ((A)) treatise of human nature. swd |
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Hume, David 1711-1776 A treatise of human nature gnd |
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Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise on human nature. nli |
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Treatise of human nature (Hume, David) fast |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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epistemology.
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Ethics
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Knowledge, Theory of
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A treatise of human nature (Hume)
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Traiger, Saul
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| LC no. |
2005021975 |
| ISBN |
9780470776377 |
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0470776374 |
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140515313X |
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9781405153133 |
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1280286016 |
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9781280286018 |
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