The end product of his labours was the Enquiry. The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects. For example, Hume's views on personal identity do not appear. However, more vital propositions, such as Hume's argument for the role of habit in a theory of knowledge, are retained. 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.

Product Description: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Classic Philosophical Literature By David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40...read more

Product Description: David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. It develops an account of human mental functioning which emphasizes the limits of human knowledge and the extent of our reliance on (non-rational) mental habits...read more

Product Description: La INVESTIGACIoN SOBRE EL CONOCIMIENTO HUMANO constituye la exposicion mas coherente y madura de las ideas de DAVID HUME (1711-1776). La obra -prologada, traducida y anotada por Jaime de Salas- se erige en torno a la formulacion de los dos grandes principios del empirismo clasico del siglo xvii -por un lado, la afirmacion de que todas nuestras representaciones se fundamentan en la experiencia y, por otro, el principio de que las cuestiones de hecho, esto es, las proposiciones facticas, no son reductibles a las relaciones de ideas, sin que quepa establecer una dependencia jerarquica del conocimiento empirico respecto al conocimiento racional-, para centrarse en definitiva en la critica de la nocion de ""causa"", con todas las implicaciones y derivaciones que el desarrollo de este tema central lleva consigo...read more

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