Common types of primary sources include works of literature, historical documents, original philosophical writings, and religious texts. What i dont like about this section is that you effectively seem to be challenging a secondary source with a primary source. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals, by david hume. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. The following are from a collection, essays, moral and political, first published in 1748, and republished in 1777. There are now a number of reliable introductory overviews of humes main contributions to ethics and political philosophy. Mossner viking, 1986 david hume, an enquiry concerning human understanding, ed. David hume, the great philosopher and historian, was born in edinburgh. There are now a number of reliable introductory overviews of hume s main contributions to ethics and political philosophy. An enquiry into the sources of morals early modern texts. So that seems like a good place to start this post. Buy a treatise of human nature on free shipping on qualified orders. Cohon 2010 and fieser 2006 are freely available online. David hume, enquiries concerning human understanding and concerning the.
Hume doesnt believe in absolute morals, although hume never really believed in believing either. However, referring to the law of causality, hume himself wrote, i never asserted so absurd a proposition as that something could arise without a cause. Reading 1 martin luther, heidelberg disputation 1518 reading 2 canon and decrees of the council of trent, on justification 1547 reading 3 arminian articles 1610. Hume sees the missing shade of blue as the one counterexample to that all ideas depend on previous impressions. David hume primary sources wang baum 1 bryan wang aaron. For hume, anybody attempting to view his true self sees instead a version colored by their own subjectivity. Beginning with a treatise of human nature 173940, hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man. A primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides firsthand or direct evidence on a topic. Thus, our proper notion of space is not like a primary quality that refers to some. One of them is simple conceptual ideas, such as the ideas of existence, unity, heat, whiteness, and similar single human conceptions.
From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the sparknotes an enquiry concerning human understanding study guide has everything you need to. Our last resource is to yield to it, and boldly assert that these different related objects are in effect the same, however interrupted and variable. You may not be required to read all of the documents assigned, so please refer to the primary source reading list for specific requirements gordon, specious arguments. But besides this exception, it may not be amiss to remark on this head, that the principle of the priority of impressions to ideas must be understood with another limitation, viz.
Later in eighteenth century, scottish philosopher david hume sought to develop more fully the consequences of lockes cautious empiricism by applying the scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature itself. He worked for four years on his first major work, a treatise of human nature, subtitled being an attempt to introduce the. David hume, in contrast, rejected all these notions. He is recognised not only as a key figure of the scottish enlightenment, but as one of the foremost philosophers writing in english. Searching for primary sources university libraries. The project gutenberg ebook of a treatise of human nature, by david hume this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Empiricism is seen in distinction from rationalism, in that it doubts the viability of universal principles rational or otherwise, and uses sense data as the basis of all knowledge. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical worksa treatise of. Discover librarianselected research resources on david hume from the questia. Despite the enduring impact of his theory of knowledge, hume seems to have considered himself chiefly as a moralist. What is the correspondence theory of truth what is the difference between impressions and ideas. David hume was a scottish enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist. Epistemology david hume britannica encyclopedia britannica. Ginocchio ap euro 1st period 30 october 20 david hume primary sources where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. The fanciful ideas are derived from the faculty of the fancy, and are the source of fantasies. Hume concludes that a priori reasoning cant be the source of the. David hume, entry in the internet encyclopedia of philosophy, by james feiser university of tennessee, martin david hume archived version of a. Learn more about his life and ideas in this article.
David hume 17111776 was a scottish philosopher noted for his skepticism. In every criminal trial the prisoner aims 1 to disprove the accusations about what he has actually done, and 2 to show that even if these actions were real they could be justi. David hume was perhaps the leading light in the empiricist movement in philosophy. A primary source is a resource that is an original, firsthand, or direct account or record from a time period, place, or people. David hume presented a criticism of the teleological argument in his dialogues concerning natural religion. The main principles of david humes epistemology as a. At 25 years of age, hume, although of noble ancestry, had no source of income and no learned profession. During the period from 1698 to 1701, the house of commons, under tory control, opposed measures taken by william iii for the security of europe against louis xiv of france.
David hume 17111776 scottishborn philosopherhistorian humes masterwork, a treatise of human nature, stands as one of philosophys most influential and compelling achievements, though at the time of its publication it was poorly received. Primary sources, authors, david hume online research. But he also wrote a number of essays which had a significant influence on the evolution of constitutional government. The aim of the project was to collect and publish the most important articles on hume written in. But having once acquird this notion of causation from the memory, we can extend the same chain of. David hume, morality is based on sentiment, in james whites, contemporary moral problems. Above is a link to the fulltext of humes of the standard of taste, reprinted in the 1910 volume english essays from sir philip sidney to macaulay edited by c. A permanent online resource for hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by david hume, and links to secondary material on the web.
David hume, entry in the internet encyclopedia of philosophy, by james feiser university of tennessee, martin david hume archived version of a webpage on hume by bill uzgalis oregon state. Educated at edinburgh, he lived 173437 in france, where he finished his first philosophical work. Searching for primary sources university libraries university of. Common types of primary sources include works of literature. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages. A treatise of human nature, by david hume project gutenberg. This survey aims to provide both a research and a teaching resource. Richard browns online introduction to philosophy class.
List of books and articles about david hume online. My interest in undertaking the david hume bibliography project began in 1986, when i was invited by routledge london to research and put together, in six volumes, david hume. The following is an etext of a 1912 reprint of the 1777 edition of david humes an enquiry concerning the principles of morals. Although berkeley rejected the lockean notions of primary and secondary qualities and matter, he retained lockes belief in the. Had we no memory, we never shoud have any notion of causation, nor consequently of that chain of causes and effects, which constitute our self or person. David hume was opposed to using observations to make conclusions. David hume argued that there is no simple, constant self to be found within a persons aggregate experiences and actions throughout their conscious life. Harris 2010 provides an overview of some of the principal interpretative issues. By the term primary, we mean the real source of simple conceptions or simple knowledge. This text is part of the internet modern history sourcebook. The project gutenberg ebook of a treatise of human nature, by david hume. David hume makes a point on the psychological impossibility of perceiving something without so.
The key concepts of libertarianism have developed over many centuries. The texts are checked against authoritative original editions, and presented visually as closely as possible to the original, though within a framework that also displays modern reference forms both page numbers of the standard printed editions, and paragraph numbers. David hume hyoom, 171176, scottish philosopher and historian. The only major singleauthor work devoted to the philosophy of the enquiry is still. A primary source is a resource that is an original, firsthand, or direct account or. He argues that the design argument is built upon a faulty analogy as, unlike with manmade objects, we have not witnessed the design of a universe, so do not know whether the universe was the. A searchable archive of all david humes philosophical works, edited by peter millican oxford and henry merivale leeds. Katherine falconer hume realized that david was uncommonly precocious. The 18thcentury writer david hume is one of the worlds great philosophical voices because he hit upon a key fact about human nature. The first inklings of them can be found in ancient china, greece, and israel. Hume, imagination internet encyclopedia of philosophy. General sources of morals most of the principles and reasonings contained in this volume were published in a work in three volumes, called a treatise of human nature, a work which the author had projected before he left college, and which he wrote and published soon after.
Primary sources contemporary western civilization ii. The sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copypermitted texts for introductory level classes in modern european and world history. Hume enquiry concerning human understanding quizlet. The character philo, a religious sceptic, voices humes criticisms of the argument.
Baillie 2000 is the only reliable booklength treatment at an introductory level. He is traditionally classified as one of the three most important british empiricists along with john locke 16321704 and george berkeley 16851753. Probably james harrington 16111677, author of the commonwealth of oceana 1656, who maintained that the balance of political power depends upon the balance of property, especially landed property. David hume, scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. David hume 17111776 approaches questions in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics via. David hume was born in 1711 to a moderately wealthy family from. It is usually created, written, or made during or close to an event, time period or by the person. And this we may observe to be the source of all the relation, of interest and.
Each page was cut out of the original book with an xacto knife and fed into an automatic document feeder scanner to make this etext, so. Grose longmans, green, 18741875 david hume, a treatise of human nature, ed. David hume 17111776 was a scottish thinker who made substantial contributions to the fields of epistemology, metaphysics, religion, mind, aesthetics, morals, politics, history and economics. From david hume, an enquiry concerning human understanding, l. List of books and articles about david hume online research.