Hume

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:David Hume

页数:278

出版时间:2007-3-5

价格:USD 32.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521604031

丛书系列:Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

具体描述

David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. It develops an account of human mental functioning which emphasizes the limits of human knowledge and the extent of our reliance on (non-rational) mental habits. It then applies that account to questions of free will and religious knowledge before closing with a defence of moderate scepticism. This volume, which presents a modified version of the definitive 1772 edition of the work, offers helpful annotation for the student reader, together with an introduction that sets this profoundly influential work in its philosophical and historical contexts. The volume also includes a selection of other works by Hume that throw light on both the circumstances of the work's genesis and its key themes and arguments.

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David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. It develops an account of human mental functioning which emphasizes the limits of human knowledge and the extent of our reliance on (non-rational) mental habits. It then applies that account to questions of free will and religious knowledge before closing with a defence of moderate scepticism. This volume, which presents a modified version of the definitive 1772 edition of the work, offers helpful annotation for the student reader, together with an introduction that sets this profoundly influential work in its philosophical and historical contexts. The volume also includes a selection of other works by Hume that throw light on both the circumstances of the work's genesis and its key themes and arguments.

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David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1748, is a concise statement of Hume's central philosophical positions. This volume offers helpful annotation for the student reader, together with an introduction that sets this profoundly influential work in its philosophical and historical contexts.

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有些问题，我们可以不去了解，那不会影响我们的吃喝住行。但这些问题如果不去了解，人生到底还是会变得黯淡。太多的理所当然太多的习以为常，基于习惯和经验，人变得倨傲和自负。 于是休谟问题就震撼了整个世界。科学并不比迷信更加理性。当人类掌握更多的知识，不断推进理智...  

这本书确实是一本很小的小册子，但正是这个小册子，造成了人类认知领域的一个革命。 这个小册子，可以认为是「人性论」的一个微缩读本。Hume把他很多思想的精髓部分完整的在这里面表达出来了。 Hume在这本书里面论述的东西非常完整，并且一以贯之。使用他最后总结的那句话来统...  

第一章、各派哲学（表述人性科学的主张） 这一章里，休谟分析了从事哲学事业的不同风格派别，其中他把精神哲学（Moral Philosophy）分为两种。 一种强调哲学对生活的影响，喜欢用哲学来指导生活，影响当世。（通俗派） 一种强调理性，强调思维达到极高的高度以使得后人受益。（...  

康德虽然一直在三大批判中引用《人性论》作为反例，事实上康德却明显受到了休谟式经验主义的影响。就算康德承认道德先验也不能否认康德和休谟对伊壁鸠鲁式怀疑主义的共同质疑和对折中怀疑主义反省精神的推崇。这部书对我来说是一次非常难忘的阅读经历，休谟对因果认知来自经验...  

休谟问题的最大贡献，就在于给哲学和自然科学提出了最具基础性的问题，因为他所质疑的，是知识大厦之所以能够伫立的最基础的地基。或许这个问题本身就是无解的，就像每个哲学家都在思考的“哲学是什么”或“人是什么”一样，答案永远没有找到的一天，对于地基的撼动似乎并没有...  

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a stupendous philosophical book with insightful discussions of empirical epistemology on vital ideas like free will, miracles, the Design Argument, and mitigated scepticism, explaining skeptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding, and building the framework of how modern people understand their knowledge and the way it's acquired

"Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it." (Hume, EHU, p. 33)

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a stupendous philosophical book with insightful discussions of empirical epistemology on vital ideas like free will, miracles, the Design Argument, and mitigated scepticism, explaining skeptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding, and building the framework of how modern people understand their knowledge and the way it's acquired