PHIL 848 Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

A close reading of this seminal work. Themes include Hume's critique of the first phase of modern philosophy as worked out in his "epistemology," moral psychology and political philosophy; the nature of human and Humean "nature"; the sense or senses in which Hume thinks of the work as "a treatise"; the unity of the book's three books; and Hume's imitation of Socratic philosophy.

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