A Treatise of Human Nature is a book by
Scottish philosopher
David Hume, published in
1739–
1740.
Hume wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in
France at the age of twenty-six. Although many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in the history of philosophy, the public in
Britain did not at first agree. Hume himself described the (lack of) public reaction to the publication of the Treatise by writing that the book "fell dead-born from the press."
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Hume intended to see whether the Treatise met with success, and if so to complete it with books devoted to Politics and Criticism. (It did not meet with success, and so was not completed.)
After deciding that the Treatise had problems of style rather than of content, he reworked some of the material for more popular consumption in
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. It did not prove extremely successful either, but more so than the Treatise.
The full title was 'A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects'. It contained the following sections:
- Book 1: "Of the Understanding" His treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how they are to be divided. Important statements of Scepticism.
- Book 2: "Of the Passions" Treatment of emotions.
- Book 3: "Of Morals" Moral ideas, justice, obligations, benevolence.
A Treatise of Human Nature is now in the
public domain.
References
1.
^ David Hume, My Own Life, 1776, Appendix A of Ernest Campbell Mossner,
The Life of David Hume, University of Texas Press, 1954, p. 612
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David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776)[1] was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.
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