The young man’s name was David Hume. Somehow ... I consulted Ernest Mossner’s classic biography of Hume. When Hume wrote the Treatise, he was living in a little French town called La Flèche ...

Yet the influence of Hume’s ideas has grown steadily and powerfully over time. Indeed, as Nicholas Phillipson remarks in his insightful biography David Hume: The Philosopher as Historian ...

PHILOSOPHER, historian, economist and essayist, David Hume was born and educated in Edinburgh. He was a sceptic and an atheist and his finest work, the three-volume Treatise of Human Nature ...