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100 1 _aHume, David,
_d1711-1776
245 1 2 _aA Treatise of Human Nature
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2003
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature
500 _aRelease date is 2003-12-01
508 _aCol Choat and David Widger Updated: 2022-11-24.
520 _a"A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume is a philosophical work published between 1739-40. Inspired by Newton's scientific achievements, Hume seeks to apply experimental methods to human psychology. He argues that passions, not reason, drive human behavior and that our beliefs about cause and effect rest on habit rather than logic. Hume presents the famous problem of induction, defends sentiment-based morality, and controversially declares that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave to the passions." This foundational text challenges rationalist philosophy through empirical investigation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aKnowledge, Theory of
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705
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