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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748 under the title Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding until a 1757 edition came up with the now-familiar name. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1748 book by David Hume Not to be confused with An Essay Concerning Human Understanding . An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1748 first edition, with its original title Author David Hume Language English Subject Philosophy Publication date 1748 Preceded by A Treatise of Human Nature   Followed by An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals   Text An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding at Wikisource David Hume by Allan Ramsay (1766) An Enquiry Concern

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