An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The Enlightenment thinker presents his empirical approach to epistemology in this foundational text of modern philosophy.

First published in 1748, David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding presents a persuasive argument in favor of the view that all human knowledge derives from experience. Discarding the notion of innate ideas and building on the views of English philosopher John Locke, this work delivered a serious blow to religious doctrine of the age, making it as controversi...