Hume's Enlightenment Tract (English, Stephen Buckle)

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This is the first full book-length study in forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding -which, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor A Treatise of Human Nature . Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, aiming to raise it to its rightful position in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often assumed, a mere collection of watered-do…

ISBN: 9780199271146