![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Opposed both to metaphysics and to rationalism, Hume's philosophy of informed scepticism sees man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity, cause and effect and speculates upon the nature of freedom, virtue and emotion. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. Book Synopsis One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. ![]()
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