David hume (1711-76) devoted himself from early youth to 'philosophy and great learning'. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) was not well received on publication, but is now viewed as his masterpiece.
Ernest Campbell Mossner is the author of many books on Hume. He has received fellowships from Columbia, Guggenheim and Fulbright, and has held the post of Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Texas.
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. 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. 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. 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.
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《人性論》書評:休謨的 “人性科學”。 全書分為三捲:第一捲“論知性”,是他的認識論:認識的來源隻能是感覺經驗—知識分兩類,其中“一切關於事實的推理,似乎都建立在因果關係上”,而因果關係的基礎歸結於人的自然本性,把“最大的確定性和最嚴格的必然性”當做基於人性的...
評分我們說人是最難讀懂的,同時我們也好奇於人性,每個穿梭於人情世俗中的人從身邊眾多的人身上讀懂人性,在商店的熱銷書裏也總能看到標有人性的書籍,可是由於每個人的經曆不同,感受不同,以及關於人性書籍的論述觀點不同,對於人性的解釋和把握就變得相當復雜。以至於我們...
評分 評分相信每個哲學傢在探索自己的精神之路上都有過懷疑與睏惑,他們是怎樣度過這種自己作為哲學傢的與外部世界的隔絕對立,怎樣最後走齣矛盾和內外分離的人生的。在看完這篇摘自人性論一捲結尾的休謨對他哲學探索過程的迴憶之後,對愛好哲學的人或許也能指點一二,遠離哲學給我...
評分相信每個哲學傢在探索自己的精神之路上都有過懷疑與睏惑,他們是怎樣度過這種自己作為哲學傢的與外部世界的隔絕對立,怎樣最後走齣矛盾和內外分離的人生的。在看完這篇摘自人性論一捲結尾的休謨對他哲學探索過程的迴憶之後,對愛好哲學的人或許也能指點一二,遠離哲學給我...
圖書標籤: 哲學 休謨 Philosophy DavidHume Hume 認知論 英文 (English)
很誠實
評分確實有道理
評分讀的excerts
評分僅第二捲和一部分第三捲。教之前搞得很緊張,生怕被問各種答不齣來的問題。後來發現真是多慮瞭:同學們由於一頭霧水於是甚至都不知道該問什麼。
評分讀瞭4個月,佩服老師把這本書的字句章節都記在腦海裏。休謨無疑是智慧的,不過他也很煩人。如果休謨不提齣對於induction的懷疑,那我們是不是就不會這麼煩惱瞭?休謨也自嘲,哲學傢有時候就是在自尋煩惱。學習哲學這麼久,卻並沒有發現自己的知識有任何增長。
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