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{{Bibliographic Record
|Title=An Introduction to Hume's Thought
|Resource Type=collection article
|Author=David Norton,
|Year=2009
|Abstract=Much of what David Hume said about a wide range of subjects
remains of great importance today. In the first volume of his first
work, A Treatise of Human Nature, a work in which he articulated
a new “science of human nature,” Hume focused on an interrelated
set of issues in theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical
psychology. More particularly, he explained how it is that we form
such important conceptions as space and time, cause and effect,
external objects, and personal identity. At the same time, he offered
an equally important account of how or why we believe in the objects
of these conceptions – an account of why we believe that causes are
necessarily connected to effects, that there are enduring external
objects, and that there are enduring selves – even though the human
mind is unable to provide a satisfactory proof that these phenomena
exist. In the second volume of the Treatise Hume expanded his
account of human psychology, focusing on the origin and role of the
passions and the nature of human freedom. In the third and final
volume of this work he explored the origins and nature of morality.
In later works he returned to many of these philosophical issues,
but he also made substantial contributions to our understanding of
political theory, aesthetics, economics, and philosophy of religion.
In addition, he wrote an influential, six-volume History of England,
a work published in over 175 editions in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, and still in print.
|Page Status=Stub
|Collection=Norton and Taylor (2009)
|Pages=1-39
}}
|Title=An Introduction to Hume's Thought
|Resource Type=collection article
|Author=David Norton,
|Year=2009
|Abstract=Much of what David Hume said about a wide range of subjects
remains of great importance today. In the first volume of his first
work, A Treatise of Human Nature, a work in which he articulated
a new “science of human nature,” Hume focused on an interrelated
set of issues in theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical
psychology. More particularly, he explained how it is that we form
such important conceptions as space and time, cause and effect,
external objects, and personal identity. At the same time, he offered
an equally important account of how or why we believe in the objects
of these conceptions – an account of why we believe that causes are
necessarily connected to effects, that there are enduring external
objects, and that there are enduring selves – even though the human
mind is unable to provide a satisfactory proof that these phenomena
exist. In the second volume of the Treatise Hume expanded his
account of human psychology, focusing on the origin and role of the
passions and the nature of human freedom. In the third and final
volume of this work he explored the origins and nature of morality.
In later works he returned to many of these philosophical issues,
but he also made substantial contributions to our understanding of
political theory, aesthetics, economics, and philosophy of religion.
In addition, he wrote an influential, six-volume History of England,
a work published in over 175 editions in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, and still in print.
|Page Status=Stub
|Collection=Norton and Taylor (2009)
|Pages=1-39
}}