Penguin Great Ideas : On Suicide

基本信息

Author: David Hume

Paperback:128 pages

Publisher:Penguin uk(25 Aug 2005)

ISBN:9780141023953

Weight:82g

Dimensions:180 x 114 x 9 (mm)

書籍簡介

縱觀歷史，有些書改變了世界。它們改變了我們看待自己和彼此的方式；它們激發了辯論、異議、戰爭和革命；它們啟發，激怒，挑釁或安慰我們；它們豐富了生活，也摧毀了生活。企鵝出版社為您帶來了偉大思想家、先驅者、激進分子和遠見卓識者的作品，他們的思想動搖了文明，幫助我們塑造自己。

作為英語史上重要的思想家之一，經驗主義者大衞·休謨將哲學從宗教的迷信束縛中解放出來。在這裏，他主張所有人都可以在生與死之間自由選擇，並簡明扼要地批評了當時的普遍哲學。

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. 

One of the most important thinkers ever to write in English, the Empiricist David Hume liberated philosophy from the superstitious constraints of religion; here, he argues that all are free to choose between life and death, considers the nature of personal taste and succinctly criticises common philosophies of the time.

作者簡介

大衞·休謨於1711年出生於愛丁堡，到1776年去世時，他已成為英國偉大的文學家，地位堪比伏爾泰和盧梭。在他的一生中，他的文章被再版和擴展，他還寫了一篇關於人性的論文(後來被重新命名為對人類理解和道德原則的探究)和一部英國曆史。

David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711, and by his death in 1776 had become one of Britain's greatest men of letters, equal in stature to Voltaire and Rousseau and described by Boswell as "the greatest Writer in Brittain". As well as his Essays, which were republished and expanded throughout his life, he wrote A Treatise of Human Nature (later recast as Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals) and a History of Britain.