The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner/ The History of Great Britain/A Kind of History of My Life/休謨 MACNABB DGC

David Hume pointed out long ago in his essay "Of suicide"– if it's wrong to end a life because that is a way of playing God, then by the same reasoning it should also be wrong to take precautions to extend it in any way.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume  休謨


 大衛·休謨（David Hume，1711年6月7日－1776年8月25日^[1]）是蘇格蘭的哲學家、經濟學家、和歷史學家，他被視為是蘇格蘭啟蒙運動以及西方哲學歷史中最重要的人物之一。雖然現代對於休謨的著作研究聚焦於其哲學思想上，他最先是以歷史學家的身分成名。他所著的《英格蘭史》一書^[2]*在當時成為英格蘭歷史學界的基礎著作長達60至70年^[3]。

 * 此書近年中國有翻譯:

• The History of England (原先的標題The History of Great Britain)—《大不列顛史》 (1754–62) 可以在自由圖書館閱讀全文[3]
• 比較像是一套叢書而不只是一本書。休謨討論的歷史範圍「包含了從凱薩大帝入侵到1688年的革命」，這套書後來再版了超過100個版本。許多人將其視為是英格蘭歷史學的標準著作，直到Thomas Macaulay的History of England一書出現為止。

The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner

 1954,  Thomas Nelson &  Sons 出版 /  1970,  OUP牛津大學出版社/2001  paperback 平裝

扉頁 引Hume  :Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy,
                                          be still a man

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Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy.

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