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David Hume (1) (1711–1776)

Autore di An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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David Hume was born in Edinburgh to a minor Scottish noble family, raised at the estate of Ninewells, and attended the University of Edinburgh for two years until he was 15. Although his family wished him to study law, he found himself unsuited to this. He studied at home, tried business briefly, mostra altro and after receiving a small inheritance traveled to France, settling at La Fleche, where Descartes had gone to school. There he completed his first and major philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739--40), published in three volumes. Hume claimed on the title page that he was introducing the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects, and further that he was offering a new way of seeing the limits of human knowledge. Although his work was largely ignored, Hume gained from it a reputation as a philosophical skeptic and an opponent of traditional religion. (In later years he was called "the great infidel.") This reputation led to his being rejected for professorships at both Edinburgh and Glasgow. To earn his living he served variously as the secretary to General St. Clair, as the attendant to the mad Marquis of Annandale, and as the keeper of the Advocates Library in Edinburgh. While holding these positions, he wrote and published a new version of his philosophy, the two Enquiries, and many essays on social, political, moral, and literary subjects. He also began his six-volume History of England from the Roman Invasion to the Glorious Revolution (1754--62), the work that made him most famous in his lifetime. Hume retired from public life and settled in Edinburgh, where he was the leading figure in Scottish letters and a good friend to many of the leading intellectuals of the time, including Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin. During this period, he completed the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which he had been working on for more than 25 years. Hume first worked on the Dialogues in the middle of his career, but put them aside as too provocative. In his last years he finished them and they were published posthumously in 1779. They are probably his best literary effort and have been the basis for continuous discussion and debate among philosophers of religion. Toward the end of Hume's life, his philosophical work began to be taken seriously, and the skeptical problems he had raised were tackled by philosophers in Scotland, France, and finally Germany, where Kant claimed that Hume had awakened him from his dogmatic slumbers. Hume was one of the most influential philosophers of modern times, both as a positive force on skeptical and empirical thinkers and as a philosopher to be refuted by others. Interpreters are still arguing about whether he should be seen as a complete skeptic, a partial skeptic, a precursor of logical positivism, or even a secret believer. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di David Hume

Trattato sull'intelletto umano (1739) 2,857 copie
Dialoghi sulla religione naturale (1779) — Autore — 2,017 copie
On Suicide (2005) 214 copie
Hume Selections (1927) 145 copie
Hume: Political Essays (1953) 119 copie
Hume on Religion (1963) 52 copie
Political Writings (1994) 48 copie
Moral Philosophy (2006) 39 copie
Writings on Economics (1955) 37 copie
The essential David Hume (1969) 34 copie
Essays (1963) 33 copie
L'entendement (1995) 19 copie
Del conocimiento (1984) 17 copie
New Letters of David Hume (1954) 16 copie
La morale (1997) 14 copie
Hume (1996) 14 copie
Obras econômicas (1996) 13 copie
My Own Life (1997) 13 copie
De uitgelezen Hume (2004) 11 copie
The letters of David Hume (1983) 11 copie
David Hume: 21 Works (2014) 11 copie
Four dissertations (1757) 10 copie
La regola del gusto (1946) 10 copie
Hume - Os Pensadores (2005) 8 copie
Hume vida e obra (2000) 8 copie
Essais esthétiques (2000) 7 copie
Etiske skrifter (1993) 6 copie
Discorsi politici (1959) 5 copie
Ma vie (2000) 5 copie
Political Discourses (2009) 4 copie
Din üstüne (2013) 4 copie
De mi propia vida (2014) 4 copie
David Hume (2017) 3 copie
Opere (1971) 3 copie
Hume: Theory of Politics (1951) 3 copie
Well-temper'd Eloquence (1996) 3 copie
Of Tragedy (1990) 3 copie
Scritti morali (1970) 2 copie
Of the Original Contract (2016) 2 copie
A proposito di Rousseau (2017) 2 copie
Hume (2000) 2 copie
Works of David Hume (2008) 2 copie
David Hume (2014) 2 copie
Hume on Religion (1964) 2 copie
Translation (1991) 1 copia
On Religion 1 copia
Eseje pozostałe (2020) 1 copia
Obras 1 copia
Obras sobre Religião (2005) 1 copia
Of Money (2011) 1 copia
Du commerce et du luxe (2005) 1 copia
Politik og æstetik (2000) 1 copia
ENSAYOS POLITICOS (2011) 1 copia
Of essay writing (1990) 1 copia
Hume's Essays 1 copia
Lettere 1 copia

Opere correlate

English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay (1909) — Collaboratore — 480 copie
The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill (1939) — Collaboratore — 471 copie
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni400 copie
Eight Great Tragedies (1957) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni388 copie
Britannica Great Books: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (1689) — Collaboratore — 362 copie
Western Philosophy: An Anthology (1996) — Autore, alcune edizioni186 copie
Atheism: A Reader (2000) — Collaboratore — 182 copie
Man and Spirit: The Speculative Philosophers (1947) — Collaboratore — 173 copie
Applied Ethics (1986) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology (2004) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
God (Hackett Readings in Philosophy) (1996) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni57 copie
The Range of Philosophy: Introductory Readings (1964) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Classics of Modern Political Theory : Machiavelli to Mill (1996) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
Philosophy now : an introductory reader (1972) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
British Moralists 1650-1800, Vol. 2 Hume-Bentham and Index (1991) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Reading Philosophy of Religion (2010) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Reading Ethics (Reading Philosophy) (2008) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Erkenntnis und Sein I Epistemologie. (1978) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Wijsgerige teksten over de wereld (1964) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

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David Hume è uno dei miei filosofi preferiti e trovo molto consolante ricorrervi quando il mondo intorno a me impazzisce e dà eccessive attenzioni a chi pensa che i vaccini provochino l’autismo o che le teorie riparative abbiano una qualche efficacia (e siano mai riuscite a riportare una persona LGBTQIA+ sulla “retta via”).

In questo volume, Laterza raccoglie sezioni da Storia naturale delle religioni, da Dialoghi sulla religione naturale e da Ricerca sull’intelletto umano, più il Frammento sul male, La superstizione e l'entusiasmo e parte de I caratteri nazionali.

Quello che adoro di Hume, oltre al suo fornire ottime argomentazioni contro i fanatici, è la sua capacità di farti dubitare delle tue stesse convinzioni e di fartele mettere in discussione (anche se sei d’accordo con lui).

Non importa da dove parti: Hume ti scombussolerà il cervello.
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lasiepedimore | Sep 19, 2023 |
Dotato di una vitalità non prepotente, ma saggiamente amministrata e diretta, David Hume ha saputo emergere nella splendida gara settecentesca dell'ingegno tenendo alto l'onore del suo paese contro l'invadenza francese.
 
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BiblioLorenzoLodi | Oct 5, 2012 |
 
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ScarpaOderzo | Apr 22, 2020 |

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