{"product_id":"2026200015751-secondhand-a-treatise-of-human-nature","title":"A Treatise Of Human Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt just twenty-six years old, David Hume produced one of the most ambitious and daring works in the history of Western thought — A Treatise of Human Nature — a radical attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects and construct a complete science of man from the ground up. Drawing on Newtonian principles and the empiricist tradition of Locke and Berkeley, Hume systematically dismantles rationalist assumptions about knowledge, causation, personal identity, and the passions, arguing that human understanding is rooted not in reason alone, but in habit, custom, and sentiment. The Treatise is divided into three books — Of the Understanding, Of the Passions, and Of Morals — each building upon the last to present a unified and groundbreaking vision of the human mind.\n\nThough initially met with indifference upon its publication in 1739–40, A Treatise of Human Nature has since been recognised as a cornerstone of Enlightenment philosophy and a decisive influence on Kant, Schopenhauer, and modern cognitive science. Hume's prose is precise and unflinching, wielding scepticism not as a weapon of nihilism, but as a scalpel to reveal the true mechanisms of thought and feeling. Edited for this Pelican Classics edition by Ernest C. Mossner — a foremost authority on Hume's life and work — the text is presented with scholarly care for both the specialist and the curious general reader. For anyone who dares to question what it truly means to think, to feel, and to be, Hume's masterwork remains as unsettling and electrifying as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203251904731,"sku":"2026200015751-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e97d6a80-bccf-400f-b8a5-ec938266a7e6.png?v=1788146451","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015751-secondhand-a-treatise-of-human-nature","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}