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Have you actually read it /lit/? Some of you read the Critique of Pure Reason, but I never get a feeling any of you have read Hume's Treatise. At best I get the feeling you guys read the Enquiry, at worst nothing at all from the guy. Hume isn't just some funny radical skeptic. Actually he's much less of a radical skeptic than you'd think and more in common with Kant than you'd think too. He talks about a lot more things in the Treatise than he does in the Enquiry as well, all very interesting.

>> No.14131803

>>14131694
Thanks bro, Hume is a real genius

>> No.14132330

>>14131803
He's pretty great. I know some on /lit/ like him, but I don't think they read the Treatise. Shame. It's good stuff.

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>>14131694

>> No.14132624

>>14131694
I've only read the enquiry and I've never met anyone who has read Hume at all.

>> No.14132635

>>14132624
Plenty of people have. No one wants admit it or no one remembers reading him.

>> No.14132654

18th century British prose is so comfy. You've got Hume, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Gibbon, Dr J, I love how ornate and intelligent it is.

>> No.14132660

>>14132654
It's condescending

>> No.14132670

>>14132660
Why do you say that? I always felt someone like Hume or Dr Johnson is addressing you very much as an intelligent equal

>> No.14133803

>>14132670
>subtly insinuates the other anon is not an intellectual equal to Hume or Johnson
Based.

>> No.14133819

>>14131694
I love Hume, but is there anything in the Treatise that isn't in the Enquiries? The Treatise is so long honestly.
>>14132352
>tfw never had Hume in my dreams

>> No.14133910

>>14133819
I get the Treatise is long, but you never see people stick to Kant's Prolegomena at the expense of the Critique, so I just find it funny Hume gets treated like that. Off the top of my head, the Treatise includes sharp criticisms of conventional geometry, a positive theory of the passions, and Hume's emotivist/compatibilist theory of morality and freedom. I think the value to reading the Treatise is that Hume covers more themes when he's dealing with things already in the Enquiry. You get a better sense of how proto-Kantian Hume really is, rather than being some kind of anti-Kant.