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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811353503321

Titolo

The Blackwell guide to Hume's Treatise / / edited by Saul Traiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

9786610286010

9781782688884

1782688889

9781280286018

1280286016

9780470798010

0470798017

9780470776377

0470776374

9781405153133

140515313X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 307 p

Collana

Blackwell guides to great works ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

TraigerSaul

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Emotions (Philosophy)

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO Hume's Treatise -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- References to the Treatise, Abstract, and Enquiries -- Editor's Introduction -- PART I: Formulation, Reception, and Scope of the Treatise -- 1 The Treatise: Composition, Reception, and Response -- 2 Hume's Other Writings -- PART II: The Understanding -- 3 Impressions and Ideas -- 4 Space and Time -- 5 Belief, Probability, Normativity -- 6 Causation -- 7 Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World -- 8 Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy -- 9 Hume's Conclusions in "Conclusion of this Book" -- PART III: The Passions -- 10 The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions -- 11 Hume's "New And Extraordinary" Account of the



Passions -- 12 Liberty, Necessity, and the Will -- PART IV: Morals -- 13 Reason, Passion, and the In uencing Motives of the Will -- 14 Hume's Arti cial and Natural Virtues -- 15 Virtue and the Evaluation of Character -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy.    * A student guide to Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.      * Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.      * Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy.      * All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.      * Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.