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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE/*StyleDefinitions*/table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"TableNormal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in5.4pt0in5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}?WithanintroductionbyCharlotteR.BrownandWilliamEdwardMorris?DavidHume(1711–1776)wasthemostimportantphilosopherevertowriteinEnglish,aswellasamasterstylist.Thisvolumecontainshismajorphilosophicalworks.ATreatiseofHumanNature(1739–1740),publishedwhileHumewasstillinhistwenties,consistsofthreebooksontheunderstanding,thepassions,andmorals.ItappliestheexperimentalmethodofreasoningtohumannatureinarevolutionthatwasintendedtomakeHumetheNewtonofthemoralsciences.DisappointedwiththeTreatise’sfailuretobringaboutsucharevolution,HumelaterrecastBookIasAnEnquiryconcerningHumanUnderstanding(1751),andBookIIIasAnEnquiryconcerningthePrinciplesofMorals,whichheregardedas‘incomparablythebest’ofallhisworks.BothEnquirieswentthroughseveraleditionsinhislifetime.Hume’sworks,controversialinhisday,remaindeeplyandwidelyinfluentialinours,especiallyforhiscontributionstoourunderstandingofthenatureofmorality,politicalandeconomictheory,philosophyofreligion,andphilosophicalnaturalism.ThisvolumealsoincludesHume’sanonymousAbstractofBooksIandIIoftheTreatise,andtheshortautobiographicalessay,‘MyOwnLife’,whichhewrotejustbeforehisdeath.