``One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.`` -- Baroness Warnock, The List Published in the mid-18th century and received with indifference (it ``fell dead-born from the press,`` noted the author), David Hume\'s comprehensive three-volume A Treatise of Human Nature has withstood the test of time and has had enormous impact on subsequent philosophical thought.
Hume -- whom Kant famously credited with having. ``One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.`` -- Baroness Warnock, The List Published in the mid-18th century and received with indifference (it ``fell dead-born from the press,`` noted the author), David Hume\'s comprehensive three-volume A Treatise of Human Nature has withstood the test of time and has had enormous impact on subsequent philosophical thought