by David Hume · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420606491
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«Investigación sobre los principios de la moral» is David Hume's essay on moral philosophy, published by Alianza in hardback (220 pages, in Spanish).
Hume reworks here books II and III of the Treatise of Human Nature to set out his moral theory: he holds that moral judgments arise from a feeling of approval towards what favours human happiness, not from mere selfish interest. Hume considered this work his most accomplished for its formal elegance and the subtlety of its arguments.
1993 edition prepared by Carlos Mellizo, with introduction, translation and notes. The text comes from books II and III of the Treatise of Human Nature.
For those studying modern philosophy or interested in empiricism and the sentimental foundation of morality.
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.
