The David Hume Page

( 1711 - 1777 )

Major Works
A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739; 1740 ).
An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature ( 1740 ).
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding ( 1748 ).
An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals ( 1751 ).
Four Dissertations ( 1757 )

• The Natural History of Religion
• Of the Passions
• Of Tragedy
• Of the Standard of Taste

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688
Autobiography: My Own Life ( 1777 ).
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ( 1779 ).
Letters. Edited by J. Y. T. Greig. Oxford, 1932.
New Letters. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and Ernest C. Mossner. Oxford, 1954.

About Hume
A. J. Ayer, Hume. Oxford, 1984. Intended as an introduction to its subject.
The Cambridge Companion to Hume. Edited by Davis Fate Norton. Cambridge, 1993.
Ernest C. Mossner, The Life of Hume. Oxford, 1954.
David Hume Home Page
The Hume Society

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