by David Hume · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782081349582
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«Dissertation sur les passions» is the philosophical essay by David Hume, published by Flammarion in paperback (404 pages, in French).
In this volume, which brings together «Dissertation sur les passions» and «Des passions», Hume approaches the passions from a general science of human nature, inspired by the methods of Newtonian physics. Against moralists and rationalists, he treats them as an essential component of conduct and analyses the laws that govern them, their relation to the world, and their influence on actions.
It corresponds to Book II of the Treatise of Human Nature, with translation and introduction by Jean-Pierre Cléro and a dossier by Raphaël Ehrsam.
Edition prescribed for the 2016 French preparatory classes (prépas); recommended for philosophy students preparing for competitive examinations.
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Following John Locke, Hume rejected the existence of innate ideas, holding that all our ideas derive ultimately from impressions, but in his fork he distinguished relations of ideas, known a priori, from matters of fact, whose knowledge rests on experience. This places him in the empiricist tradition of Locke and George Berkeley, while drawing his experimental method from Francis Bacon.
