The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume's Treatise from the Inside Out

by Jay L Garfield and Jay L. Garfield

Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of his own understanding of custom, and in particular, without an appreciation of the grounding of his thought about custom in the legal theory and debates of his time. Custom is the source of Hume's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190933402
• ISBN13: 9780190933401
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"