Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
- David Hume (author)
- Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge (editor)
Two of David Hume’s most important works of moral philosophy, epistemology, and psychology which together were supposed to make up Hume’s “science of man”. They are a revised version of his earlier work A Treatise of Human Nature which appeared in 1739.
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Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
Kant challenges Hume’s abandonment of metaphysics and morals and strives to replace faith in philosophy.
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An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common SenseThomas Reid
Known as the Father of Common Sense, Reid writes in opposition to Hume, Locke, and Berkley’s empiricism.