This
Guide
provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s
A Treatise of Human Nature
and its influence on modern philosophy.
A student guide to Hume’s
.
Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.
Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the
Treatise
, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy.
All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.
Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the
Treatise,
explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.