Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature (Personal Name)

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Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy web site, October 14, 2013: David Hume (A treatise of human nature (1739-1740))

Britannica.com, academic edition, October 14, 2013: David Hume, Scottish philosopher (A treatise of human nature; the Treatise was Hume's attempt to formulate a full fledged philosophical system. It is divided into three books: book I, on understanding, aims at explaining the human process of knowing, describing in order the origin of ideas, the ideas of space and time, causality, and the testimony of the senses; book II, on the "passions," gives an elaborate psychological machinery to explain the affective, or emotional, order in humans and assigns a subordinate role to reason in this mechanism; book III, on morals, describes moral goodness in terms of "feelings" of approval or disapproval that a person has when he considers human behaviour in the light of the agreeable or disagreeable consequences either to himself or to others)