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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 128 EAN: 9780198751724 ISBN: 0198751729 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 626 Publication Date: February 24, 2000 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of truly practical and accessible guides to major philosophical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world up to modern times. Each book opens with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist which covers the philosopher's life, work, and influence. Endnotes, a full bibliography, guides to further reading, and an index are also included. The series aims to build a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, forming a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike. David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and how we create compelling but unverifiable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they apply to human choices and actions, and concludes with a detailed explanation of how we distinguish between virtue and vice. The volume features Hume's own abstract of the Treatise, a substantial introduction that explains the aims of the Treatise as a whole and of each of its ten parts, a comprehensive index, and suggestions for further reading. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Norton Edition OutstandingThe following comments pertain to the Oxford Philosophical Texts edition of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature edited by David and Mary Norton. Thoughts are offered in three areas: the specific edition, additional resources and the Treatise itself. First - the Oxford Philosophical Texts edition. This is the second installment of this series that I have used, and if they are reflective of the overall series, I can see it quickly becoming the standard. Strengths/weaknesses include: ... Read More Rating:  - Bad edition. Full of mistakes. This version is full of mistakes. It was copied from a free version available online (project gutenburg). This becomes evident when the same mistakes are discovered in both. For example: p. 329 footnote n. 12 "One might think..." the first paragragh apeers twice! So, my advice is, either printout this version from the internet and save money, or buy the Oxford Press version. Rating: - An Awful Edition, Full of TyposIf you are looking to buy Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, buy another edition. In addition to making poor font choices, this edition's editors have let an unconscionable number of typos slip through. There are so many, perhaps as many as one per page, that sometimes Hume's meaning is obscured, and reading is made difficult. Rating: - philosophy as social scienceHume's `Treatise on Human Nature', the book, which, in the report of the author "fell stillborn from the press", and yet remains of continuing interest to us four centuries hence, is, among all else, the primordial exposition of a systematic psychology in the West. Hume's elevation of "the passions" ("Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.") and centralization of intentionality in the study of ourselves, are as ... Read More Rating:  - Misadvertised/mis-linked to different editionThis was not the edition I wanted, as follows: I initially found the desired edition, including a photo of the cover, followed the links for available copies, including this one which I purchased (which, BTW, did not have a photo of cover, but I assumed it was same edition as on the initial page). Was dismayed to receive this different edition. It matters because it was for a friend's college course. Professors often reference pages in the assigned edition, which do not correspond to another edition's ... Read More 
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