An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a classic philosophy essay by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739-40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press, as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work. The end product of his labours was the Enquiry. The Enquiry dispensed with much of the material from the Treatise, in favor of clarifying and emphasizing its most important aspects. For example, David Hume's views on personal identity do not appear. However, more vital propositions, such as Hume's argument for the role of habit in a theory of knowledge, are retained. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber". The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	19. november 2015
ISBN13	9781519403582
Forlag	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Antal sider	152
Mål	152 × 229 × 8 mm · 213 g
Sprog	Engelsk

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