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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2011
      October 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139084055
      9781108034777
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084055
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.29kg, 222 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, English Literature: General Interest, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, English Literature: General Interest, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
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    What is philosophy about? According to the author of this work (published in the first series of 'English Men of Letters' in 1879) it is fundamentally the answer to the question: 'What can I know?' T. H. Huxley (1825–95), the distinguished English scientist and disciple of Darwin, succeeds in giving a clear and succinct account of the way in which Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–56) answered this question. The book is divided into two parts: in the first, Huxley provides the reader with a sketch of Hume's life, but the main emphasis of the book is in Part 2, where by expounding Hume's views on the object of philosophy, consciousness, theology, language and free will, Huxley guides the reader towards an understanding of how Hume's philosophical principles can be regarded as a search for the ultimate element out of which all valid knowledge may be shown to emerge.

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