HUME by Stephen Priest

CONTENTS

• HUME IN HISTORY
• IMPRESSIONS AND IDEAS
• PHYSICAL OBJECTS
• SPACE AND TIME
• KNOWLEDGE
• CAUSATION
• PERSONAL IDENTITY
• MIND AND BODY
• FREEDOM
• INDUCTION
• MEMORY AND IMAGINATION
• RELIGION
• ETHICS
• POLITICS
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• Price: £ 7 (or the equivalent in your currency)
• First published in Stephen Priest The British Empiricists, Penguin Books, London and New York, 1990.
• 17,617 words 29 pages

David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish empiricist and Tory, casts doubt on the origins of our concepts of God, morality, private property, scientific reasoning, causation and the physical world. This conservative gent was therefore in fact a radical and neither the scientific materialist nor the theologian can derive much comfort from his thought. Stephen Priest's clear introduction explains Hume's ideas in an accessible way.

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