An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh (Hackett Classics) Second Edition,2

I quite enjoyed reading this version of David Hume's Enquiry, it was my very first time sitting down with this and I cannot recommend this book enough to any student of the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Hume is charming in his wit and impressive in his arguments, especially in the infamous chapter " Of Miracles ", which is present in this writing. I came out disagreeing with his empiricism, but I have the utmost respect for him as a philosopher and any individual lucky enough to acquire this text will surely come to understand why.

I like the product, it is very well made. I used it to write a research paper about miracles. What Hume believed and wrote about in section X makes me very sad, and how angry the concept of miracles made him. No wonder Kant had to salvage philosophy after Hume had wreaked havoc upon it.

Hume mah dawg, his theory of the association of ideas made the whole philosophical community hate so hard they were fittin' to ride on their enemies fo' like a quarter millenia. Hume's criticism of tha abstrusity of dat weak-sauce ivory tower mess opened up my eyes. Phizzle-osophy aint of no use to no mahfs. if it's written to be exclusionary and nizeedlessly abstract. Kant on some weak stuff with his candy refusing to get on my man Hume's level and spittin it so real mahfs could track. Causality some bull-ish to. Inductive posteriori-zzle knowledge straight up weak next to the the realness of the sense-impressionizzle you would feel when the righteous power of Hume's pimp hand finds you and your candy.

Hume seems to get into the processes of cognitive thinking/therapy in part of this book which I found to be insightful and astute. The book describes Hume's view on how humans acquire knowledge and rationalize events i.e. thinking. I definitely thought this was better than Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics or Plato's "Five Dialogs. As far as reading this one went - it was pretty good. It was not overly complicated. Some philosophy books you have to read parts over and over again to figure out what is going on, this one wasn't like that.

Hume's Enquiry marks an epoch in human understanding; when rightly understood it will cause tectonic shifts in your understanding of understanding. Unfortunately, it is rarely rightly understood; he was grossly misconstrued in his own time and still is in ours. He indeed spoke truly when he wrote:"My principles are also so remote from all the vulgar sentiments on the subject, that were they to take place, they would produce almost a total alteration in philosophy; and you know revolutions of this kind are not easily brought about." -- David Hume

Bought for school, arrived in good condition, recommend

Hume does an outstanding job of standing western philosophy, as it existed at the time, on it's head. This book awoke Kant from his "dogmatic slumber," and is a must read for any student of philosophy.

The mark of a good book is its ability to stand the test of time. And this book, written in XVIIIth century is still modern, actual. Every scientific oriented mind should read it.