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Essays - Moral, Political and Literary
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This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #67533 in Books
- Published on: 1987-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 736 pages
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"We have Hume's own word that the definitive statement of his philosophy is not to be found in the youthful Treatise of Human Nature but in the 1777 posthumous edition of his collected works entitled Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Yet a major part of this definitive collection, the Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (a volume of near 600 pages, covering three decades of Hume's career as a philosopher) has been largely ignored. The volume has rarely been in print, and the last critical edition was published in 1874-75. With this splendid, but inexpensive, new critical edition by Eugene Miller, the door is open to a richer notion of Hume's conception of philosophy..." -- Donald Livingston, Emory University.
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David Hume
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Enlightened Man
A gorgeously well-edited collection of the best of the most arresting essay stylist of the eighteenth century, bar none. Only Nietzsche since has even begun to make philosophy this much of a pleasure to read, and this sparkling - while the thought itself is more modest, and more probing, than anything by Rousseau or Addison at the same time could ever be. The essay on miracles, reprinted here, is the sounding-bell of secularism; those on government the apotheosis of common sense in political theory, their assumptions and intentionalities towards human nature crisply relevant today. Reading Hume can never be a waste of time, and not a page of this is devoid of inspiration.
