David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Annotated) David Hume

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume. David Hume (Edinburgh, May 7, 1711-ibid, August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is one of the most important figures in Western philosophy and in the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume asserts that all knowledge ultimately derives from sensible experience. His main works are: Treatise on Human Nature (1739) and Research on Human Understanding (1748). Hume was strongly influenced by the empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley, as well as by several French writers such as Descartes, Malebranche and Pierre Bayle, and some figures on the English-speaking intellectual scene such as Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Butler. David Hume influenced utilitarianism, logical positivism, the philosophy of science, analytical philosophy, cognitive science, theology, and other movements. Immanuel Kant, for example, attributed to Hume having been a stimulus for his philosophical thought that would have awakened him from his "dogmatic dream". Historians consider that Hume's philosophy is not valid as a deepening of skepticism,