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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Author
David Hume
Language
English
Length
152 pages
ISBN
9781787360839
Published
25 November 2019
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • David Hume
  • empiricism
  • scepticism
  • naturalism
  • philosophy
  • morals
  • human nature
  • ethics

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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is the enquiry subsequent to the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Thus, it is often referred to as "the second Enquiry". It was originally published three years after the first Enquiry. Hume first discusses ethics in A Treatise of Human Nature. He later extracted and expounded upon the ideas he proposed there in his second Enquiry.

Author

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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