David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… – ‘never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature . It fell dead-born from the press , without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.’ 1 1 . The Life of David Hume, … Moral, Political, and Literary, A Critical Edition, ed. by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A. Box , 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2021), vol. 1, p. 164. 5 . ‘No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its … by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton in The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), vol. 1, p. 206 (Book II, Part I, Section XI ‘Of the Love of Fame’). 6 . Ryu Susato, Hume’s Sceptical …
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