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    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    Written by David Hume

    Narrated by Hugh Ross

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    As intriguing today as when it was first published, Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a fascinating exploration into the nature of human knowledge. Using billiard balls, candles and other colourful examples, Hume conveys the core of his empiricism: that true knowledge can only be gained through sensory experience. No other philosopher has been at the forefront of the mind than David Hume; physics, psychology, neuroscience – connections to Hume are everywhere. Here is the book that Immanuel Kant confessed had awoken him from his ‘dogmatic slumber’.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateAug 15, 2015
    ISBN9781843797883
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    David Hume

    David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published. Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume’s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.

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      what an incredible narration, and the book is nothing short of a sure treat!
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      Simple and without pretentious bias, makes interesting questions, showing that a curious mind can opt for reality without sacrifice of Curiosity in itself. Remind me a lot of a quote of another write that goes something like “if you can’t explain it in simple way, its because you don’t understand it enough”.