A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume’s first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature is widely considered to be one of the greatest philosophical works written in the English language. In this work, he attempts an empirically informed account of human nature and covers in three volumes a range of topics such as space, time, causality, the external world, personal identity, passions, freedom, necessity, virtue and vice. This edition includes the complete primary text, annotated and introduced by Angela Coventry, along with Hume’s “Abstract” of the Treatise and several contemporaneous reviews.