Hume’s Intellectual Legacy: The 18th-Century Shock That Still Echoes
When David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739, he expected to revolutionize philosophy. Instead, the book, as he later lamented, “fell dead-born from the press.” Yet this initial failure masked what would become one of the most profound intellectual earthquakes in Western thought. Nearly three centuries later, Hume’s ideas continue to reverberate […]
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