An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Ranked #40 in Enlightenment, Ranked #45 in Philosophy Of Science — see more rankings.
A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. less
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Simon Blackburn Hume thought that overconfidence and dogmatism led to intolerance, to faction, to a lot of the crimes of human history. (Source)
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