In this book, Hume discusses the subjectivity of taste and the role of sentiment in determining aesthetic preferences, challenging the idea of objective beauty.
Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the "Enquiry" in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of ...
A Treatise of Human Nature, first published between 1739 and 1740, is a philosophical text by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. The work contains three books: "Of the Understanding", "Of the Passions" and "Of Morals".
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."
Judging it to be "of all my writings incomparably the best," David Hume (1711-1776) accurately assessed this classic, which continues to influence philosophical thinking on ethics to this day through the force of its ideas and its clarity ...