An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition

by David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp

Overview

This new volume in the Clarendon Hume series presents a definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy. In his elegant and lucid Enquiry Hume gives us an accessible presentation of a fully developed ethical theory. The distinguished Hume scholar Tom L. Beauchamp presents an authoritative text accompanied by introduction, annotation, glossary, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and indexes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199266333
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Series:	Clarendon Hume Edition Series , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	396
Sales rank:	733,044
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 7.22(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Georgetown University

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction. Note on the Text.David Hume: iAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals/i (Text with Annotations).Glossary. Editorial Appendix. Biographical Appendix. List of References. Catalogue of Hume's References. Hume's Index. Editor's Index.

Editorial Reviews

A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Hume's ethical naturalism. --Martha C. Nussbaum, Brown University

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