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A Progress of Sentiments : Reflections on Hume’s Treatise by Annette C. Baier is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Progress of Sentiments : Reflections on Hume’s Treatise about?
Annette Baier's aim is to make sense of David Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was "True to the End." Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about "truth and falsehood, reason and folly." By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.Baier finds Hume's Treatise on Human Nature to be a carefully crafted literary and philosophical work which itself displays a philosophic
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- Author
- Annette C. Baier
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674020382
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Medical, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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