by David Hume · Tecnos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430946969
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«Ensayos morales y literarios» is a collection of essays by David Hume, published by Tecnos in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
Set within the Scottish Enlightenment, these essays investigate whether morality and virtue are natural to humanity or artificial constructions of self-interested individuals. The 17 texts, in the edition by Estrella Trincado Aznar, set out a coherent theory in morals, aesthetics, politics and economics and polemicize with authors such as Adam Smith.
It belongs to the «Filosofía - Los esenciales de la Filosofía» collection from Tecnos. First edition published in 2008.
A work of interest for philosophy students and for readers who want to approach Scottish Enlightenment thought.
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.
