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Hume
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Beginning with an overview of Hume's life and work, Don Garrett introduces in clear and accessible style the central aspects of Hume's thought. These include Hume's lifelong exploration of the human mind; his theories of inductive inference and causation; skepticism and personal identity; moral and political philosophy; aesthetics; and philosophy of religion.
The final chapter considers the influence and legacy of Hume's thought today. Throughout, Garrett draws on and explains many of Hume's central works, including his Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
Hume is essential reading not only for students of philosophy, but anyone in the humanities and social sciences and beyond seeking an introduction to Hume's thought.
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Index
abstract ideas 4–6, 37, 52–60, 78; Berkeley and 317; and mental representation 75–77, 86; see also normative concepts; sense-based concepts
abstract reasoning see demonstrative reasoning
action see will
adaptation 285, 288–92, 299–300
aesthetic normativity 147–50
aesthetic sense 109, 118–28, 164–65; and religion 291–92
afterlife 286–87, 295, 309
allegiance 273
analogy 288–90, 298–301
animals 74–75
appearance, of truth 158–59
approbation see moral normativity
Aristotle 62, 193
art 27–28; see also aesthetic sense; beauty
artificial virtues 248, 268–74; justice 262–68
association of ideas 49–50,53
associationism 326–27
atheism 298–99, 312–13; see also irreligion
Ayer, A. J. 330–31
background structures 84
Bacon, F. 316
Bayle, P. 37, 316–17
Beattie, J. 31–32, 320–21
beauty 123–28, 148–50; origins of 118–23; and religion 291–92
being 68, 71
belief 43, 74–75, 93–97, 236; in bodies 98–105, 114, 220–21; and causation 195; erroneous 251; as sensation 137; and truth 153–56, 160–63, 169–70; see also religious belief; skeptical considerations; skepticism
Bentham, J. 325–26
Berkeley, G. 37, 53–54, 69–71, 98, 319; influence on Hume 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Preface: how to read this book
- Introduction
- One "A ruling passion"
- Two Perceptions and their principles
- Three The mind and its faculties
- Four Sense-based concepts
- Five Normative concepts
- Six Induction and causation
- Seven Skepticism and probability
- Eight Morality and virtue
- Nine Religion and God
- Ten "Leaving it to posterity to add the rest"
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index