An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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- anglès
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Cita aquesta obra
- APADavid Hume. (n.d.). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding
- MLADavid Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding.
- ChicagoDavid Hume. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-hume/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding.
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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.
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abstract, and even unintelligible to common readers, they aim at the approbation of the learned and the wise; and think themselves sufficiently compensated for the labour of their whole lives, if they can discover some hidden truths, which may contribute to the instruction of posterity. 3. It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have the preference above the accurate and abstruse; and by many will be recommended, not only as more agreeable, but more useful than the other. It enters more into common life; moulds the heart and affections; and, by touching those principles which actuate men, reforms their conduct, and brings them nearer to that model of perfection which it describes. On the contrary, the abstruse philosophy, being founded on a turn of mind, which cannot enter into business and action, vanishes when the philosopher leaves the shade, and comes into open day; nor can its principles easily retain any influence over our conduct and behaviour. The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian. 4. This also must be confessed, that the most durable, as well as justest fame, has been acquired by the easy philosophy, and that abstract reasoners seem hitherto to have enjoyed only a momentary reputation, from the caprice or ignorance of their own age, but have not been able to support their renown with more equitable posterity. It is easy for a profound philosopher to commit a mistake in his subtile reasonings; and one mistake is the necessary parent of another, while he pushes on his consequences, and is not deterred from embracing any conclusion, by its unusual appearance, or its contradiction to popular opinion.…