G. J. Mattey’s Lecture Notes on Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature


This page provides links to lecture notes prepared for Philosophy 174. Sections which are assigned for reading are given a more lengthy treatment than those which were not. More notes will be posted at a later date.

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IntroductionAbstract Appendix
Book 1, Part 1
Of ideas, their origin, composition,
connexion, abstraction, &c.
Book II, Part I
Of pride and humility
Book III, Part I
Of virtue and vice in general
Book I, Part II
Of the ideas of space and time
Book II, Part II
Of love and hatred
Book III, Part II
Of justice and injustice
Book I, Part III
Of knowledge and probability
Book II, Part III
Of the will and direct passions
Book III, Part III
Of the other virtues and vices
Book I, Part IV
Of the sceptical and other
systems of philosophy


Last Modified: April 13, 2020

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