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| Titre : | The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise |
| Auteurs : | Saul Traiger |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-4051-1509-4 |
| Résumé : |
This *Guide* provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand HumeÔÇÖs *A Treatise of Human Nature *and its influence on modern philosophy. * A student guide to HumeÔÇÖs *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. ### Review ÔÇ£The Blackwell Guide to HumeÔÇÖs Treatise is a very welcome arrival, an antidote to the selective attention from which the *Treatise* has often suffered. The contributors set out and assess HumeÔÇÖs main doctrines and arguments across the whole *Treatise*, bringing out links between its different parts, and situating the work in its biographical and philosophical context. The result is an excellent introduction to one of the major works of western philosophy.ÔÇØ *Stephen Buckle, Australian Catholic University* ÔÇ£This is an excellent addition to an excellent series. Saul Traiger has solicited an impressive collection of original essays covering all the parts of HumeÔÇÖs most important, but also most baffling, work. The authors include most of the worldÔÇÖs leading Hume scholars. Their work is authoritative, but is also very clearly presented, so that the volume will be accessible to college students as well useful for expert philosophers. Highly recommended!ÔÇØ *Vere Chappell, University of Massachusetts* ### From the Back Cover David HumeÔÇÖs *A Treatise of Human Nature* is one of the most important works of modern philosophy. This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools needed to begin mining HumeÔÇÖs *Treatise* for philosophical insight. The *Guide *contains fifteen newly written chapters by leading Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a selected portion of the *Treatise*, explaining the central arguments, as well as key contemporary interpretations of those arguments. They cover such topics as: the formulation, reception, and scope of the *Treatise*; the theory of impressions and ideas; imagination and memory; space and time; causation and causal inference; the passions; HumeÔÇÖs treatment of belief in the external world and the self; the moral sentiments and their relation to reason; and the role of sympathy. |
