Humes Treatise was published before he was thirty (after its publication in 1739-40 he wrote that it fell dead-born from the press).
It is nothing less than an attempt to extend the Copernican Revolution to philosophy - to put to the test of experience a complete system of the moral sciences which had hitherto gone unquestioned. But Hume was no rationalist: from his viewpoint of informed scepticism he could see man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite.
With justice Sir Isaiah Berlin has written of him: No man has influenced the history of philosophy to a deeper or more disturbing degree.
A Treatise of Human Nature
Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
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The Contents
Introduction
Book I: Of the Understanding
Book II: Of the Passions
Book III: Of Morals
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