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

Enquête sur les principes de la morale

Recueil des discours politiques de Hume - ou douze discours qui constituent sa plus importante contribution à l'économie politique.
Contenant : Du commerce, Du luxe, Sur l'argent, De l'intérêt, De la balance du commerce, De la balance du pouvoir, Sur les impôts, Sur le crédit public, Sur quelques coutumes remarquables, Sur le nombre d'habitants parmi quelques nations anciennes, Sur la succession protestante, Idée d'une république parfaite.
Nouv. éd. entièrement revue et corrigée. 
Format professionnel © Ink Book édition.

Discours Politiques - recueil complet et annoté [douze discours traduits de l'anglais par Éléazar de Mauvillon, entièrement revus, corrigés et adaptés en français moderne]

DISPUTES with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, entirely disingenuous, who really do not believe the opinions they defend, but engage in the controversy, from affectation, from a spirit of opposition, or from a desire of showing wit and ingenuity, superior to the rest of mankind. The same blind adherence to their own arguments is to be expected in both; the same contempt of their antagonists; and the same passionate vehemence, in inforcing sophistry and falsehood. And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks not to the affections, will ever engage him to embrace sounder principles.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and to form compelling but unconfirmable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they apply to human choices and actions, and concludes with detailed explanations of how we distinguish between virtue and vice and of the different kinds of virtue. Hume's Abstract of the Treatise, also included in the volume, outlines his 'chief argument' regarding our conception of, and belief in, cause and effect. The texts printed in this volume are those of the critical edition of Hume's philosophical works now being published by the Clarendon Press. The volume includes a substantial introduction explaining the aims of the Treatise as a whole and of each of its ten parts, extensive annotations, a glossary of terms, a comprehensive index, and suggestions for further reading.

La morale

« Tous les goûts, dit-on, sont dans la nature » et « des goûts et des couleurs on ne dispute pas ». S'ensuit-il pour autant que la beauté se réduise à ce que chacun en perçoit ? Si tel est le cas, le barbouillage le plus grossier vaut la toile du maître. Devant une telle inconséquence, le philosophe écossais David Hume (1711-1776) montre qu'il est légitime de rechercher une règle du goût, une manière commune de juger du beau et du laid. Car avoir du goût, ce n'est pas seulement sentir, c'est savoir sentir. Et pour comprendre la genèse de ce savoir pratique, le philosophe nous invite, à la lumière du double rapport de la sensibilité et de l'éducation, à reconsidérer sans préjugés notre expérience de la beauté.

La Règle du goût

Abrégé du  traité de la nature humaine

Mettre au jour les lois qui régissent le monde des passions, montrer que les passions engagent un rapport particulier au monde et souligner leur prégnance dans le domaine des actions humaines : telle est l'ambition de Hume dans les deux oeuvres ici réunies. Réécriture du livre II du Traité, la Dissertation sur les passions en rend plus saillantes les thèses originales.À la différence des moralistes qui dénoncent les vices des passions, des rationalistes qui entendent les subordonner aux idées claires et distinctes, et des naturalistes qui les font dériver des états du corps, Hume, s'inspirant des méthodes de la physique newtonienne, les aborde pour la première fois du point de vue d'une science générale de la nature humaine.

Dissertation sur les passions. Des passions

David Hume è noto soprattutto come filosofo: l'ultimo grande rappresentante dell'empirismo britannico di Sei e Settecento, il difensore di una teoria della conoscenza focalizzata sui fenomeni, il negatore delle nozioni di sostanza e causalità, l'interprete di una teoria morale che pone al centro le emozioni. Ma egli è stato anche un importante economista e un attento analista della vita politica. Nei tre saggi qui riuniti ("Sul commercio", "Sulla bilancia commerciale" e "Sulla rivalità nel commercio") Hume presenta le sue idee in difesa del libero scambio e mostra la fragilità degli assunti che erano alla base delle analisi e delle politiche mercantiliste. Non soltanto egli sottolinea come l'atto dello scambiare beni e servizi sia essenziale allo sviluppo della civiltà, che si basa su specializzazione e divisione del lavoro, ma rileva quanto sia contestabile l'ossessione - caratteristica degli intellettuali schierati a difesa dello Stato assoluto - sulla bilancia dei pagamenti. Per Hume lo sviluppo delle relazioni commerciali è essenzialmente positivo in varie direzioni: per gli attori economici del Paese che si apre a un'economia globale (che grazie agli scambi sviluppano le proprie potenzialità), per le sue istituzioni politiche (che possono trarre solo beneficio da tanta prosperità), per le altre nazioni (che entrano in una competizione non conflittuale e distruttiva, ma destinata a migliorare tutti).

Sul commercio e sulla civiltà

All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions: and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul. By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning; such as, for instance, are all the perceptions excited by the present discourse, excepting only those which arise from the sight and touch, and excepting the immediate pleasure or uneasiness it may occasion.

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