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)

书籍简介

纵观历史，有些书改变了世界。它们改变了我们看待自己和彼此的方式；它们激发了辩论、异议、战争和革命；它们启发，激怒，挑衅或安慰我们；它们丰富了生活，也摧毁了生活。企鹅出版社为您带来了伟大思想家、先驱者、激进分子和远见卓识者的作品，他们的思想动摇了文明，帮助我们塑造自己。

作为英语史上重要的思想家之一，经验主义者大卫·休谟将哲学从宗教的迷信束缚中解放出来。在这里，他主张所有人都可以在生与死之间自由选择，并简明扼要地批评了当时的普遍哲学。

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.

作者简介

大卫·休谟于1711年出生于爱丁堡，到1776年去世时，他已成为英国伟大的文学家，地位堪比伏尔泰和卢梭。在他的一生中，他的文章被再版和扩展，他还写了一篇关于人性的论文(后来被重新命名为对人类理解和道德原则的探究)和一部英国历史。

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.