A review by spav
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

2.0

This book has two different views for me. First of the views isconcerning the contents. On it, Hume unleashes his tremendously abstract mind to tackle the 'understanding' of concepts, the concept of 'ideas' and the process of 'thinking' itself as well as digs into the concept of the skepticism. He does so in a tremendously deep, detailed and very ornamented style, even though he uses some lines to praise against this kind of philosophy, in my opinion he falls in the same trap (maybe is just I'm not used to way to use the language to express ideas in that century).

The other view of the book for me is the intense and deep study that Peter Millican gives us in this edition. Dissecting every part of the book and putting it into matter and time in few pages. Perhaps the best from the book is this study, that makes easier to understand Hume's mindset.