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A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
It fell dead born from the press, its author joked, yet it quietly became one of the most influential philosophy books in English. Hume's Treatise dismantles causation, personal identity, and the pretensions of reason, then rebuilds knowledge on custom and human nature. The analysis of the understanding still sets examination questions. Meet the gentle demolisher of certainty.
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107 chapters
- 1A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
- 2ADVERTISEMENT.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4BOOK I. OF THE UNDERSTANDING
- 5PART I. OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION, ETC.
- 6SECT. I. OF THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS.
- 7SECT. II. DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT.
- 8SECT. III. OF THE IDEAS OF THE MEMORY AND IMAGINATION.
- 9SECT. IV. OF THE CONNEXION OR ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
- 10SECT. V. OF RELATIONS.
- 11SECT. VI. OF MODES AND SUBSTANCES
- 12SECT. VII. OF ABSTRACT IDEAS.
- 13PART II. OF THE IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME.
- 14SECT. I. OF THE INFINITE DIVISIBILITY OF OUR IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME.
- 15SECT. II. OF THE INFINITE DIVISIBILITY OF SPACE AND TIME.
- 16SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME.
- 17SECT. IV. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED.
- 18SECT. V. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
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