Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects.
Hume, David.
Short quarto. viii, 539 pp. Full leather binding with golden tooled border around edges. Spine has been expertly reinforced by red binder's tape. Thick marbled decorative endpapers. Scuffing to leather and browning to pages due to age, otherwise book is in good condition. Contents: Part I; Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. Part II; Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. The Natural History of Religion.
The author, David Hume (1711 - 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is still considered an important figure in Western philosophy and in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment. One of the first of the great modern philosophers to embrace a thoroughly naturalistic philosophy consisting of the rejection of the view that the human mind is a miniature version of the divine mind. Rather, he embraced skepticism and preferred to rely on empirical evidence in order to find truth. This is his Mona Lisa of works, comprising the core of all of his philosophical ideals in writing.
Edition: Second edition
Book ID: 20757
Price: $1,750.00