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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - cover

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

Publisher: Studium Publishing

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a revision of an earlier Hume's work, Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.
Available since: 09/04/2018.

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