David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intel...(展开全部)

David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intel...(展开全部)

大卫·休谟 David Hume 1711.04.26 －1776.08.25 英国哲学家、历史学家，是经验主义哲学心理学代表之一，欧洲近代不可知论的主要代表。他生于英国苏格兰爱丁堡的一个没落的贵族地主家庭，因病逝于英国爱丁堡。 他 3 岁丧父，由母亲抚育成人，童年即喜欢文学及哲学，1723 年 12 岁便进爱丁堡大学学习法律和哲学，15 岁尚未毕业时，厌倦大学教育而返回家中自修。他的父亲曾任法官，而他的母亲也来自律师家庭，因此家人希望他从事法律工作，但他却选择了研究哲学，此时他 18 岁。1732 年就开始撰写他的主要著作《人性论》，1934－1737 年旅居法国三年，继续哲学研究及著述，1737 年 9 月从法国返回伦敦时，已完成《人性论》手稿，16 个月后，于 1739 年出版了哲学巨著《人性论》，该书...(展开全部)

大卫·休谟 David Hume 1711.04.26 －1776.08.25 英国哲学家、历史学家，是经验主义哲学心理学代表之一，欧洲近代不可知论的主要代表。他生于英国苏格兰爱丁堡的一个没落的贵族地主家庭，因病逝于英国爱丁堡。 他 3 岁丧父，由母亲抚育成人，童年即喜欢文学及哲学，1723 年 12 岁便进爱丁堡大学学习法律和哲学，15 岁尚未毕业时，厌倦大学教育而返回家中自修。他的父亲曾任法官，而他的母亲也来自律师家庭，因此家人希望他从事法律工作，但他却选择了研究哲学，此时他 18 岁。1732 年就开始撰写他的主要著作《人性论》，1934－1737 年旅居法国三年，继续哲学研究及著述，1737 年 9 月从法国返回伦敦时，已完成《人性论》手稿，16 个月后，于 1739 年出版了哲学巨著《人性论》，该书...(展开全部)

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

In seventeenth-century England, patriarchalist thinking shaped English ideas not only about the family but also about society and the state. Many thinkers argued that the state should be seen as a family, and that the king held the powers of a father over his subjects. The classic texts of patriarchal political thinking were written by Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), one of the ...(展开全部)

Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic exposition of his philosophy as a whole. In it, he presents clear and comprehensive statements of his two best-known contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, namely, the doctrines of occasionalism and vision in God; he also states h...(展开全部)