by David Hume · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423972425
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, one of the most important thinkers of the Enlightenment. In this essay, Hume presents a secular conception of morality, arguing that human beings naturally approve of what is useful and agreeable to oneself and to others. Hume criticizes traditional virtues such as celibacy and penance, and instead exalts benevolence, integrity, and joy. This edition has been prepared by Gerardo López Sastre, a specialist in Hume's work.
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.
