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One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.” &; Baroness Warnock, The ListPublished in the mid-18th century and received with indifference (it “fell dead-born from the press,” noted the author), David Hume’s comprehensive three-volume A Treatise of Human Nature has withstood the test of time and has had enormous impact on subsequent philosophical thought. Hume &; whom Kant famously credited with having “interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave my investigations in the field of speculative philosophy a quite new direction” &; intended this work as an observationally grounded study of human nature. He employed John Locke’s empiric principles, constructing a theory of knowledge to serve as a foundation for the evaluation of metaphysical ideas











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