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A Treatise of Human Nature

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What’s it about?

David Hume dissects the human mind to reveal that reason is a slave to passion, the self is a bundle of perceptions, and our deepest beliefs rest on habit, not logic.

You’ll learn

  • All ideas come from impressions
  • Cause and effect is mental habit
  • The self is a bundle of perceptions
  • Reason is the slave of passions