by David Hume · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420660615
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In 'An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals', David Hume criticizes the ideas of Locke and Hobbes, who refer moral passions and actions to selfish self-love. Hume, on the other hand, highlights the feeling favorable to the happiness of mankind and resentment for his misfortune. This edition, revised and updated by Carlos Mellizo, presents Hume's masterpiece, where formal elegance is combined with the subtlety of the arguments.
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.
