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David Hume - Author
1711-1776
Scottish
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Hume

David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the most important British philosophers, essayists, and historians of the eighteenth century. Hume’s works, controversial in his day, remain deeply and widely influential in ours, especially for his contributions to our understanding of the nature of morality, political and economic theory, philosophy of religion, and philosophical naturalism.

Books by David Hume