Hume with Helps to the Study of Berkeley : Collected Essays

1908. A volume of essays by Huxley, the celebrated 19th Century English biologist known as Darwin's Bulldog for his defense of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's Collected Essays speak to the what, where, when and how of one of the nineteenth centuries brightest minds. Huxley writes that in the reform of philosophy, since Descartes, he thinks that the greatest and the most fruitful results of the activity of the modern spirit-it may be, the only great and lasting results-are those first presented in the works of Berkeley and of Hume. Contents: Part I. Hume's Life: Early Life: Literary and Political Writings; Later Years: The History of England. Part II. Hume's Philosophy: The Object and Scope of Philosophy; The Contents of the Mind; The Origin of the Impressions; The Classification and the Nomenclature of Mental Operations; The Mental Phenomena of Animals; Language-Propositions Concerning Necessary Truths; The Order of Nature: Miracles; Theism; Evolution of Theology; The Soul: The Doctrine of Immortality; Volition: Liberty and Necessity; The Principles of Morals. Helps to the Study of Berkeley: Bishop Berkeley on the Metaphysics of Sensation (1871); and On Sensation and the Unity of Structure of Sensiferous Organs (1879). See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.