The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise || Reason, Passion, and the Influencing Motives of the Will

✍ Scribed by Traiger, Saul

• Book ID: 120873340
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1405115084
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470776377.ch13

✦ Synopsis

This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy.

• A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature.
  • Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.
    • Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy.
      • All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.
        • Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.