Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 2843 Hume, David 1711 1776 A Treatise of Human Nature Col Choat and David Widger Updated: 2022-11-24. "A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume is a philosophical work written in the early 18th century. The book seeks to explore the underlying principles of human nature, with a focus on understanding the origin and workings of human thoughts and emotions. Hume delves into various topics of human experience, highlighting the relationship between impressions and ideas, and how these elements contribute to our understanding of reality. The opening of the treatise introduces Hume's approach, emphasizing that all perceptions in the human mind consist of two distinct types: impressions, which are vivid and forceful, and ideas, which are their fainter representations. Hume proposes to categorize these perceptions and elucidate their qualities and relationships, especially focusing on how simple ideas derive from simple impressions. He aims to establish a foundational understanding of human nature that connects ideas and their origins, while also hinting at the broader implications this understanding may have on other branches like ethics and social philosophy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Knowledge, Theory of B Text Philosophy Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 1522672 1523354 2024-10-02T13:45:31.194329 2023-10-02T11:33:19.925878 text/html text/html 1530521 2022-11-24T04:27:56 text/html 662758 2024-10-02T13:45:45.881237 application/epub+zip 666426 2024-10-02T13:45:34.818349 application/epub+zip 659106 2024-10-02T13:45:33.360322 application/epub+zip 1033328 2024-10-02T13:45:55.724807 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 936774 2024-10-02T13:45:44.804246 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 893839 2022-09-03T03:59:25.046357 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1365653 1365644 2024-10-02T13:45:30.097362 2023-10-02T11:33:18.947848 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1365384 2022-11-24T04:26:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19446 2024-10-02T13:45:55.863690 application/rdf+xml 14479 2024-10-02T13:45:33.931325 image/jpeg 3988 2024-10-02T13:45:33.643311 image/jpeg 455707 2022-11-24T04:26:56 application/octet-stream application/zip 474196 2022-11-24T04:30:12 application/octet-stream application/zip 531711 2024-10-02T13:45:31.313311 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia