A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Mor (Penguin Classics)

Great book but if you’re looking for light reading jog on by……

Possibly my favourite text in the early modern philosophical cannon. Biting, decisive, and lucid - and written with wit. Although huge - and slightly bigger than needed - both the introduction and notes are excellent, written by one of my favourite Hume scholars. Highly recommended if you’re studying this at university or if you want to read it on your own, but be warned about the colossal size. (This is the biggest book I own except for the complete works of Shakespeare, and some art books). Arrived in good condition. Expensive, but not ridiculous for a university course book.

Useful for uni course

Hume's Treatise is one of the most difficult pieces of philosophical literature in the canon of the Enlightenment. But if you want to fully understand the origin and character of the naturalist's worldview, this is definitely the book to start with. I recommend starting from the beginning, and reading it in blocks of two or three sections at a time, taking breaks and reviewing what you've read with a conversation partner. It took me about 8 weeks to finish the whole thing. But I suspect it will take a good deal longer for most people...

Exactly as described, and arrived in pristine condition. Would recommend!

Stunningly original, sceptical masterpiece.

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Bears very little resemblance to the actual text. Impossible to read.