Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of an Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By Stephen Buckle and Buckle Stephen

Book Overview

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-down extracts from the earlier work. It is, rather, a coherent work with a unified argument; and, when this argument is grasped as a whole, the Enquiry shows itself to be the best introduction to the features of its author's general philosophy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199271143
• ISBN13: 9780199271146
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"