Enquiries: Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals

David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognized at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its writing rather than the matter it contained, 'cast the first part of that work anew in the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748), and afterwards continued the same process in the second work contained in this volume, the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). Both Enquiries are here reprinted, with an Introduction and Analytical Index by the late L. A. Selby-Bigge, from the posthumous edition (1777) of Hume's Collected Essays.

Published 1975, Third Edition.

Binding of book is loose. Moderate shelfwear and some creasing on dust jacket. Some foxing on flaps. Tear and creasing on back flap. Some shelfwear on covers of books. Slight tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pencil on board of front cover. Some foxing and shadow on endpapers. Slight foxing on certain pages.