WITH HUME’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND A LETTER FROM ADAM SMITH
Publication Information : Book Title : An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature. Contributors : David Hume – author. Publisher : Open Court Publishing. Place of Publication : Chicago. Publication Year : 1921.
PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE.
THE present volume is the second of the series of Philosophical Classics which The Open Court Publishing Company purposes issuing in cheap form for the convenience and instruction of the general reading public. It is an unannotated reprint, merely, of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, made from the posthumous edition of 1777, together with Hume’s charming autobiography and the eulogistic letter of Adam Smith, usually prefixed to the History of England. These additions, with the portrait by Ramsay, which forms the frontispiece to the volume, render the picture of Hume’s life complete, and leave but a word to be said concerning his philosophical importance.