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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 2nd Edition (Annotated)) (Hackett Classics) by David Hume & Eric Steinberg [Hume, David & Steinberg, Eric] is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led Hume to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book I of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Hume & Eric Steinberg [Hume, David & Steinberg, Eric]
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781603845359
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (487 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) (1999)
- An enquiry concerning human understanding ; [with] A letter from a gentleman to his friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An abstract of a Treatise of human nature (2011)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [With] a Letter From a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [And] an Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature (1993)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1999)
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics) (1748)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (2007)
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics) (2007)
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics) (2006)
- An inquiry concerning human understanding : with a supplement, An abstract of A treatise of human nature (1999)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (2011)
- Enquiries: Concerning The Human Understanding And Concerning The Principles Of Morals (1978)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (2012)
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