Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 3244 Hume, David 1711 1776 A Treatise of Human Nature Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature Col Choat and David Widger Updated: 2022-11-24. "A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume is a philosophical work written in the early 18th century. The book seeks to explore the underlying principles of human nature, with a focus on understanding the origin and workings of human thoughts and emotions. Hume delves into various topics of human experience, highlighting the relationship between impressions and ideas, and how these elements contribute to our understanding of reality. The opening of the treatise introduces Hume's approach, emphasizing that all perceptions in the human mind consist of two distinct types: impressions, which are vivid and forceful, and ideas, which are their fainter representations. Hume proposes to categorize these perceptions and elucidate their qualities and relationships, especially focusing on how simple ideas derive from simple impressions. He aims to establish a foundational understanding of human nature that connects ideas and their origins, while also hinting at the broader implications this understanding may have on other branches like ethics and social philosophy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 47.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Knowledge, Theory of B Text Philosophy Category: Philosophy & Ethics 1531326 2025-08-02T12:29:14.935254 text/html 1501884 2025-06-10T09:02:54 text/html 662796 2025-08-02T12:29:28.298693 application/epub+zip 663742 2025-08-02T12:29:18.151306 application/epub+zip 656423 2025-08-02T12:29:16.835253 application/epub+zip 1033183 2025-08-02T12:29:37.093739 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 936722 2025-08-02T12:29:27.238735 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 893839 2022-09-03T03:59:25.046357 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1365644 2025-08-02T12:29:13.860287 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1345896 2025-06-10T09:02:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15935 2025-08-02T12:29:37.253648 application/rdf+xml 14479 2025-08-02T12:29:17.350249 image/jpeg 3988 2025-08-02T12:29:17.094255 image/jpeg 532283 2025-08-02T12:29:15.038262 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia