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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) was David Hume's second attempt to offer readers his view on epistemology. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) was no succes and Hume even suffered from a depression following this failure. Nevertheless, he was convinced of the importance of the message, so he decided to publish its contents in two.
Endnotes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding appeared for the first time under this title in the 1758 edition of Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Earlier it had been published several times, beginning in 1748, under the title Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding.An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals was first published in 1751.
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At that time Hume also wrote Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, later published as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Often called the First Enquiry, it proved little more successful than the Treatise, perhaps because of the publishing of his short autobiography, My Own Life, which “made friends difficult for the first Enquiry”. (38).
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume - David Hume wrote Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding in 1748, right in the middle of the Enlightenment and on the eve of the Industrial and Scientific Revolution. So it only makes sense that some of the ideas and comparisons used are slightly outdated, but science, if anything, helps his argument regarding causality. Hume is ultimately.
Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding (London: 1748 ). A second edition appeared in 1750, a third in 1756, at which time the title was changed to that now in use, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.From 1756 on the work was available as part of a collection bearing the general title Essays and Treatises on several Subjects.This collection also included items 3, 5 and 6.