Shalem Press Releases the First Full Translation of Hume’s “Treatise on Human Nature”

Shalem Press has just released David Hume’s classic of Western philosophy, A Treatise on Human Nature, bringing a work that shaped the ideas of thinkers from Immanuel Kant to Adam Smith and Charles Darwin to an Israeli audience. Regarded as the most comprehensive work on human nature ever written, the Treatise, whose second and third books on the philosophy of morality and of justice have never before appeared in Hebrew, offers “a critical opportunity for citizens of the Jewish state to encounter the source of those ideas that continue to shape our public discourse today,” states Hebrew University professor of philosophy and book editor Mark Steiner in his introduction.

The translation was generously funded by Martin J. Gross of Roseland, New Jersey, whose Martin J. Gross Collection of Voltaire in the New York Public Library is one of the world’s most important collections of the French Enlightenment philosopher’s works. The book—whose publication earned an appreciation in the pages of Israel’s daily Ma’ariv—served as the subject of a panel discussion at the Association of Israeli Philosophy conference at Tel-Aviv University earlier this month.

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