David Hume

''A skilful and lucid study ... Hume''s History has been unjustly neglected at the expense of his philosophy. Phillipson''s book should help redress the balance'' London Review of Books

''For pray, what is the End of Man? Is he created for Happiness or for Virtue? For this Life or for the next? For himself or for his Maker?''

A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, David Hume was one of th...