内容简介
这本书是英国伟大的文人、哲学家、历史学家大卫•休谟的首部思想传记。书中描述了休谟一生的主要事件，将休谟的所有著作置于历史语境中，分析了休谟多种文学风格的差异，揭示了休谟思想发展所受到的主要影响。作者关注休谟作为哲学分析家的旨趣，细致梳理了休谟与其同时代人的思想关联。哈里斯笔下的休谟，热衷于在启蒙运动所有重大问题上实现其开放、客观、缜密、冷静对话的理想。
作者简介：
詹姆斯•A.哈里斯是圣安德鲁斯大学的哲学史教授，著有《自由与必然：18世纪英国哲学的自由意志讨论》（2005），并主编《牛津18世纪英国哲学册》（2013），与艾伦•格雷特合编《18世纪苏格兰哲学（卷一）》(2015)。
译者简介：
张正萍，浙江大学历史学院副教授，浙江省“之江青年”社科学者，曾赴英国剑桥大学、格拉斯哥大学、日本名古屋大学访学，研究方向为苏格兰启蒙运动。著有《激情与财富：休谟的人性科学与其政治经济学》，译有《苏格兰启蒙运动中的商业社会观念》《偷窃历史》等。
Content introduction
This book is the first intellectual biography of the great English scholar, philosopher and historian David Hume. The book describes the major events of Hume's life, places all of Hume's works in a historical context, analyzes the differences between Hume's various literary styles, and reveals the major influences on the development of Hume's thought. The author pays close attention to Hume's interest as a philosophical analyst, and carefully combs the ideological relations between Hume and his contemporaries. Harris's Hume was passionate about the Enlightenment's ideals of open, objective, rigorous, and dispassionate dialogue on all major issues.
About the author:
James A. Harris is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, author of Liberty and Necessity: A Discussion of Free Will in Eighteenth-century English Philosophy (2005), editor of the Oxford Volume of Eighteenth-century English Philosophy (2013), and co-editor with Alan Gleit of Eighteenth-century Scottish Philosophy (Volume I) (2015).
About the Translator
Zhang Zhengping is an associate professor at the School of History, Zhejiang University. She is a social science scholar of "Zhijiang Youth" in Zhejiang Province. She has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Glasgow University and Nagoya University in Japan. Her research direction is Scottish Enlightenment. He is the author of Passion and Wealth: Hume's Science of Human Nature and its Political Economy, The Social Conception of Commerce in the Scottish Enlightenment, and the History of Theft.
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