An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [Hardcover]

This is the first new scholarly edition this century of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, David Hume'sEnquiry concerning Human Understanding. It is the third volume of the Clarendon Hume Edition, which will be the definitive edition for the foreseeable future. In this work Hume gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views. The distinguished Hume scholar Tom Beauchamp presents an authoritative text accompanied by an introduction, annotation, a glossary, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and indexes.

Introduction: A History of Two Dissertations
A Note on the Text

Texts

A DISSERTATION ON THE PASSIONS
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION

Editorial Material

Editor's Annotations
Editorial Appendix: Emendations and Substantive Variants
Biographical Appendix
The Intellectual Background
Reference List
Catalogue of Hume's References
Hume's Index
Editor's Index
Introduction; A Note on the Text; An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding; Editor's Annotations; Glossary; Editorial Appendix; Biographical Appendix; Reference List; Catalogue of Hume's references; Hume's Index; Editor's Index.

Tom L. Beauchampis Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown University. He is one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume.