Book · 1740 · Nonfiction

A Treatise of Human Nature

Name: A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 677 pages

★ 7.4 editorial score

Look inside for a self and you find only a rush of sensations. Look for cause and effect and you find only habit. Reason itself, Hume concludes, is the slave of the passions.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Human nature Epistemology

Time

1740Depicts Age of Enlightenment

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