by David Hume · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429743920
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a work by David Hume, published by Edicions 62 in 1998. This book, with 216 pages, explores Hume's theory of knowledge and the principles of British empiricism. Translated by Josep M. Sala Valldaura and edited by Victòria Camps, it is a fundamental work in the field of 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.
