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November 01st, 2024

Great Books Reading and Discussion Group

“An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,” by David Hume

Please join us to discuss “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,” by David Hume (1711-1776).

A group of veteran members now manages this long-standing Huntington Public Library book group. We invite you to share in an exploration of highly regarded classics of literature, history, and philosophy through a discussion technique known as “Shared Inquiry. Selections are from Great Conversations 2, available for purchase at the Main Library front desk for at the reduced price of $10 thanks to a generous donation from the Friends of the Library.

David Hume was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Never an academic philosopher, Hume was rather a man of letters and of affairs. He gave voice to philosophical empiricism, a conviction that knowledge must be based on direct sensory experience. His “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,” is a restatement in popular form of some of the ideas Hume had put forward in his long work “A Treatise of Human Nature.” The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant stated that Hume awakened him from his “dogmatic slumbers.”                           

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