An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- Escrita per l'autor
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- Text net
- Extensió:
- ~62.300 paraules · 296 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APADavid Hume. (n.d.). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding
- MLADavid Hume. "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding.
- ChicagoDavid Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding.
De què tracta
D'on treu la ment les seves idees i amb quin dret connecta causes i efectes: la resposta de Hume — costum, no raó — i la seva crida a llençar al foc tota metafísica que no ho suporti.
Context i història
Publicada el 1748, és la reescriptura madura i concisa del 'Tractat de la naturalesa humana', que als seus vint-i-tants anys havia «nascut mort de la impremta», com va dir ell mateix. L'anàlisi de la causalitat i la crítica dels miracles la van fer escandalosa; la seva prosa, un clàssic. I va tenir el lector més decisiu imaginable: Kant va escriure que Hume l'havia despertat del «son dogmàtic» — sense aquest llibre, la 'Crítica de la raó pura' no existiria tal com la coneixem.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
Reprinted from The Posthumous Edition of 1777, and Edited with Introduction, Comparative Tables of Contents, and Analytical Index by L.A. Selby-Bigge, M.A., Late Fellow of University College, Oxford. Second Edition, 1902 CONTENTS I. Of the different Species of Philosophy II. Of the Origin of Ideas III. Of the Association of Ideas IV. Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding V. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts VI. Of Probability VII. Of the Idea of necessary Connexion VIII. Of Liberty and Necessity IX. Of the Reason of Animals X. Of Miracles XI. Of a particular Providence and of a future State XII. Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy INDEX SECTION I. OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF PHILOSOPHY. 1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections.…