An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh new-arrivals-280222 Set in near-future New England

Set in near-future New England in a strongly patriarchal and totalitarian state

Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions

It is also a searing and honest account of his life

as a preliminary and incentive to further work in the field

Learning from failure has the status of a cliché

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh new-arrivals-280222 Set in near-future New EnglandA landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise