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• Edited by Eric Steinberg.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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- Author
- David Hume; E. Steinberg (ed.)
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780872202306
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (487 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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 (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 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 2nd Edition (Annotated)) (Hackett Classics) (2011)
- 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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