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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Author
David Hume
Language
English
Length
148 pages
ISBN
9781787360822
Published
25 November 2019
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • David Hume
  • empiricism
  • scepticism
  • naturalism
  • philosophy

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, a revision of an earlier effort, A Treatise of Human Nature. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described dogmatic slumber. The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

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David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian whose skeptical intelligence reshaped modern thought. In works such as A Treatise of Human Nature and the Enquiries, he questioned how we know what we know — and how habit, perception, and custom shape belief. Hume's lucid style and willingness to follow argument wherever it leads made him one of the clearest and most influential minds of the Enlightenment.

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