# A Treatise of Human Nature

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- Authors: [David Hume](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-hume)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-09-02

## Description

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space; considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity, cause and effect; and speculates upon the nature of freedom, virtue and emotion. Opposed both to metaphysics and to rationalism, Hume's philosophy of informed scepticism sees man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite.

## Editions

### A Treatise of Human Nature

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-464-1
- Published: 2004-09-02
- Language: en_GB

### A Treatise of Human Nature

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-244-2
- Pages: 688
- Published: 2004-09-02
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Trattato della natura umana](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-hume/it/trattato-della-natura-umana) (it_IT)
- [Traktat o naturze ludzkiej](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-hume/pl/traktat-o-naturze-ludzkiej) (pl_PL)