The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise (Blackwell Guides to Great Works, Vol. 5)

This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy.

• A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature.
  
• Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.
  
• Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy.
  
• All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.
  
• Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.