by David Hume · BIBLIOTECA NUEVA,S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788488123770
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«Sobre el estudio de la historia» is David Hume's essay with the appendices to the History of England, published by Biblioteca Nueva in paperback.
It brings together the essay «Sobre el estudio de la historia» and the three appendices to Hume's History of England. The collection condenses a project that in its original edition spanned six volumes. Against Enlightenment optimism, Hume argues that liberties arise from institutions and norms, not from laws of history or a national character.
Edited by Enrique Ujaldón, with translation, introduction, selected bibliography and chronology; 208 pages in Spanish. Clásicos del Pensamiento Económico y Social collection.
For readers interested in philosophy, historiography and 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.
