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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Pages in excellent condition.. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The status that both science and morality receive in Hume’s system however seems to be less secure than many (perhaps especially in Hume’s day) have sup-posed and such skepticism may appear to undercut political and moral commitments and theoretical convictions of all kinds. The negative or critical aspects of Hume’s skepticism however although conspicuous and important are far from being the whole of his philosophical achievement. His larger explorations of “human na-ture” and subsequently of history as the cumulative manifestation of human nature are undertaken in order to discover and exhibit the foundations (such as they may be) of our cognitive and moral life. And although this enterprise is interrupted by skeptical doubts and the digressions they occasion nevertheless it reveals in the end the operation of faculties and processes (such as feeling and custom) that compensate in a manner that Hume finds to be largely satisfactory for human purposes for the weakness of reason. (SP)