 | Peter Winch - 1990 - 160 pages
...sciences have a relation, greater or leas, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may aeem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another." Hume's remark is a further reminder of the close relation between the subject of this monograph and... | |
 | Robert B. Edgerton - 2010 - 296 pages
...modifiable they are by experience. In A Treatise on Human Nature, written in 1739 and 1740, David Hume wrote, " 'Tis evident that all the sciences have a...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they will return back by one passage or another." If there is to be a scientific study of human maladaptation,... | |
 | Joseph Mali - 2002 - 296 pages
...cautious and rather dismissive tone now gave way to an impassioned plea: "Tis evident', wrote Hume, 'that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature', so that 'there is no question of importance, whose decision is not compriz'd in the science of man;... | |
 | Lubor Velecky - 1994 - 156 pages
...importance of philosophical anthropology. Hume, too, in a well-known passage proclaims that " 'T is evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater...from it, they still return back by one passage or another."19. Hence his hope of success in philosophical researches if we "march up directly to the... | |
 | Martin Hollis - 1994 - 284 pages
...foundation for 'a complete system of the sciences'. It is evident, he remarked in his Introduction, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature. 'Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Natural Religion are in some measure dependent on the science... | |
 | Peggy Zeglin Brand, Carolyn Korsmeyer - 2010 - 506 pages
...of Human Nature with a remark that summarizes his entire approach to philosophical investigation: " Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation,...from it, they still return back by one passage or another."1 Thus his examinations of knowledge, of ethics, of politics, and — of particular interest... | |
 | Oliver A. Johnson - 1995 - 398 pages
...as an instrument of reasoning. Hume is fully aware of this need. So he writes in the introduction: "Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature. . . . Tis impossible to tell what changes and improvements we might make m these sciences were we thoroughly... | |
 | Tom Rockmore - 1995 - 274 pages
...Clearly anticipating Marx's famous claim that all the sciences are sciences of man. Hume asserts: " Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation. greater or less, to human nature,"20 He further writes: He straightforwardly holds that all scientific questions are finally... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 pages
...chap, ix, section 1. a call to have objective knowledge serve human ends. " 'Tis evident," Hume argues, "that all the sciences have a relation, greater or...they still return back by one passage or another." After all, even "Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion" are to some degree "dependent... | |
 | Martin Hollis - 1996 - 300 pages
...University Press, 1956, chapter XII, p. 322. CHAPTER 14 The social destruction of reality It is evident thai all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and thai, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another.... | |
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Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature, and that, however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. 
