The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise

This <i>Guide</i> provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s <i>A Treatise of Human Nature</i> and its influence on modern philosophy. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>A student guide to Hume’s <i>A Treatise of Human Nature</i>.<br /> </li> <li>Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.<br /> </li> <li>Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the <i>Treatise</i>, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy.<br /> </li> <li>All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.<br /> </li> <li>Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the <i>Treatise,</i> explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.</li> </ul>