A Treatise of Human Nature

David Norton, FRSC, Macdonald Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, McGill University and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria. He is author of David Hume: Common-Sense Moralist, Sceptical Metaphysician (1982), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hume (1993), and, with Mary J. Norton, an independent scholar, co-author of The Hume Library (1996).

These new Oxford University Press editions have been meticulously collated from various exatant versions. Each text has an excellent introduction including an overview of Hume's thought and an account of his life and times. Even the difficult, and rarely commented-on, chapters on space and time are elucidated. There are also useful notes on the text and glossary. These scholarly new editions are ideally adapted for a whole range of readers, from beginners to experts.

• PART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL ; HOW TO USE THIS BOOK ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ; SUPPLEMENTARY READING ; A NOTE ON THE TEXTS OF THIS EDITION ; PART 2: THE TEXT ; ADVERTISEMENT ; INTRODUCTION ; BOOK 1: OF THE UNDERSTANDING ; PART 1: OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION, ETC. ; PART 2: OF IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME ; PART 3: OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROBABILITY ; PART 4: OF THE SCEPTICAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY ; BOOK 2: OF THE PASSIONS ; PART 1: OF PRIDE AND HUMILITY ; PART 2: OF LOVE AND HATRED ; PART 3: OF THE WILL AND DIRECT PASSIONS ; BOOK 3: OF MORALS ; ADVERTISEMENT ; PART 1: OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL ; PART 2: OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE ; PART 3: OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES ; APPENDIX ; AN ABSTRACT OF ... A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE ; PART 3 SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL ; EDITORS' ANNOTATIONS ; GLOSSARY ; REFERENCES ; INDEX