An Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals - 9781805475910

A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Hume's ethical naturalism. Yet several writers who have honoured the Author's Philosophy with answers, have taken care to direct all their batteries against that juvenile work, which the author never acknowledged, and have affected to triumph in any advantages, which, they imagined, they had obtained over it: A practice very contrary to all rules of candour and fair-dealing, and a strong instance of those polemical artifices which a bigotted zeal thinks itself authorized to employ. Henceforth, the Author desires, that the following Pieces may alone be regarded as containing his philosophical sentiments and principles.

Author: David Hume

Publisher: Atlas Vista Publisher

Publication Date: Aug 29, 2023

Number of Pages: 126 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1805475916

ISBN-13: 9781805475910