by David Hume · Alianza editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420617879
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«Investigación sobre el conocimiento humano» is the philosophical essay by David Hume, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In this work, Hume analyzes the origin and scope of human knowledge and argues that every idea derives from experience. He examines the formation of ideas, the connection between causes and effects and the limits of reasoning, and maintains that matters of fact cannot be reduced to relations between ideas.
Edition from El Libro de Bolsillo, Classics section (no. 787). Translation, introduction and notes by Jaime de Salas Ortueta. Original title: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748).
For readers interested in philosophy and the history of modern empiricism, as well as in classics of 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.
