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19222223 No.19222223 [Reply] [Original]

A question for anyone who's read Hume's Treatise of Human Nature: are Books 2 and 3 worth reading?

I clearly see the relations to Descartes' rationalism in Book 1, as well as those points which woke Kant from le dogmatic slumber. Do the remaining books have much philosophical merit? Russell said in his History of Western Philosophy that Book 1 contains all that is novel and important in Hume. If that's true, I'm ready to be done with him and move on.

>> No.19222234

>>19222223
If Russell's word isn't good enough, why do you care about ours?

>> No.19222241

>>19222234
He was wrong about a lot

>> No.19222266

>>19222223
i would probably consult secondary lit that isn't russell. no offense to him but everyone knows his HOWP is bad in terms of being a history of western philosophy

>> No.19222396

>>19222241
And we're right about a lot?

>> No.19222468

>>19222396
I have never been wrong before.
>>19222223
I enjoyed An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. It describes a lot of his thoughts in more layman's terms.