A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light
on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, Hume's
response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme
skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his
Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, which anticipates discussions
developed in the Enquiry.
Table of Contents
1. Of the Different Species of Philosophy
2. Of the Origin of Ideas
3. Of the Association of Ideas
4. Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding
5. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts
6. Of Probability
7. Of the idea of Necessary Connexion
8. Of Liberty and Necessity
9. Of the Reason of Animals
10. Of Miracles
11. Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State
12. Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy
A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh
An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature
