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Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Stephen Buckle
Paperback. Oxford University Press, USA 2004-04.
ISBN 9780199271146
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Hume's Enlightenment Tract is the first full book-length study for forty
years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. The Enquiry has,
contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its
predecessor, A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in
a fresh light, and aims to raise it to its rightful position in Hume's work and
in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often
assumed, a mere collection of watered-down extracts from the earlier work. It
is, rather, a coherent work with a unified argument; and, when this argument is
grasped as a whole, the Enquiry shows itself to be the best introduction to the
lineaments of its author's general philosophy. Buckle offers a careful guide through the argument and structure of the
work. He shows how the central sections of the Enquiry offer a critique of the
dogmatic empiricisms of the ancient world (Stoicism, Epicureanism, and
Aristotelianism), and set in place an alternative conception of human powers
based on the sceptical principles of habit and probability. These principles
are then put to work, to rule out philosophy's metaphysical ambitions and their
consequences: religious systems and their attendant conception of human beings
as semi-divine rational animals. Hume's scepticism, experimentalism, and
naturalism are thus shown to be different aspects of the one unified philosophy
- a sceptical version of the Enlightenment vision. Contrary to Hume's wishes, 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' has
long lived in the shadow of its predecessor 'A Treatise of Human Nature'.
Stephen Buckle presents the 'Enquiry' in a fresh light.
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