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- Stathis PsillosInterview
It’s a philosophy book: A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume. I read it when I was seventeen and made me want to become a philosopher. It was published in 1739 and was initially under-appreciated because of its scepticism. Hume replaced the traditional conception of reason as the master of human affairs with a…
- Paul RussellInterview
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume is a philosophical masterpiece of enormous range and ambition. For the most part, it has not, in my view, been well appreciated or understood by the legions of philosophers and scholars who have written about it and/or cite it – so it should be read with fresh eyes. With regard…
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I see David Hume, very much as a kind of successor to Aristotle. He too believed in the power of reason, but also deeply appreciated its limitations. Hume rejected Cartesian rationalism which believed that by pure reason alone we could achieve knowledge of what matters in life.
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