人性论

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人性论

1739 · 作者：大卫·休谟

印象与观念、作为习惯的因果关系、作为一束知觉的自我。

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Hume wrote the Treatise in France, partly at La Flèche, and published it anonymously: Books I “Of the Understanding” and II “Of the Passions” in 1739, Book III “Of Morals” in 1740. In the same year he published an anonymous “Abstract” to explain its central argument. The subtitle calls the work an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. Well-known passages include the claim that reason “is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions” (Book II) and the observation that writers on morality slip from “is” to “ought” without explanation (Book III). Hume later wrote that it “fell dead-born from the press”.