by David Hume · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198752486
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in English in 1748. It constitutes a reformulation of part of the Treatise on Human Nature, an earlier work by the author, but with a more accessible and general audience-oriented approach. In this book, Hume explores central themes of epistemology, such as causality, induction, and skepticism, profoundly influencing the subsequent development of Western philosophy.
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Following John Locke, Hume rejected the existence of innate ideas, holding that all our ideas derive ultimately from impressions, but in his fork he distinguished relations of ideas, known a priori, from matters of fact, whose knowledge rests on experience. This places him in the empiricist tradition of Locke and George Berkeley, while drawing his experimental method from Francis Bacon.
