| Description | | - Written by A J Ayer, himself an eminent twentieth-century philosopher
- Hume's life and works are an important area of focus for British philosophy and empirical thinking
- Covers Humes theories about perception, self-identity, causation, morality, politics, and religion
- Includes generous quotations from Hume's lucid and often witty writings
- First published as part of the Past Masters series; life sales over 16,000 copies
- Now reissued as a Very Short Introduction, along with other new philosophy titles in the series.
| | Hume is one of the greatest of all British philosophers, and even in his own lifetime was celebrated as one of the pivotal figures of the Enlightenment. A central theme of his philosophy is the conviction that questions traditionally thought of as completely independent of the scientific realmnullquestions about the mind, about morality, and about God, for examplenullare actually best
explained using the experimental methods characteristic of the natural sciences. Hume's 'naturalist' approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories about perception, self-identity, causation, morality, politics, and religion, all of which are discussed in this stimulating introduction by A J Ayer, himself one of the twentieth century's most important
philosophers. Ayer also gives an account of Hume's fascinating life and character, and includes generous quotations from Hume's lucid and often witty writings. |
Readership: General readers interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, and the Enlightenment; undergraduate students.
| Contents |
Preface; 1. Life and character; 2. Aims and methods; 3. Bodies and selves; 4. Cause and effect; 5. Morals, politics and religion; Bibliographical note; Index.
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
A. J. Ayer, Formerly Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford
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