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Anonymous. By David Hume.
Edinburgh : printed by R. Fleming and A. Alison, for A. Kincaid, 1741. v,[3],187,[1]p. ; 8°
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David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published.
Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.
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- PublisherGale ECCO, Print Editions
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1170546013
- ISBN 13 9781170546017
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages194
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