Hume grounds all human knowledge in experience and passion, arguing that reason is the slave of the passions.
Books mentioned in A Treatise of Human Nature (4)
De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum by Cicero: “TANTA VIS ADMONITIONIS INEST IN LOCIS; UT NON SINE CAUSA EX HIS MEMORIAE DUCTA SIT DISCIPLINA. Cicero de Finibus, lib. 5.”
Historical and Critical Dictionary by Pierre Bayle: “see whether all the absurdities, which have been found in the system of Spinoza, may not likewise be discovered in that of Theologians. [See Bayle's dictionary, article of Spinoza.]”
The Republic by Plato: “I am apt to think a travellar would meet with as little credit, who should inform us of people exactly of the same character with those in Plato's republic on the one hand, or those in Hobbes's Leviathan on the other.”
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: “I am apt to think a travellar would meet with as little credit, who should inform us of people exactly of the same character with those in Plato's republic on the one hand, or those in Hobbes's Leviathan on the other.”
Books that mention A Treatise of Human Nature (1)
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt: “His first great work, A Treatise of Human Nature, had this subtitle: Being”