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" By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.

Since the publication of Annette Baier's seminal A Progress of Sentiments, with its emphasis on Hume as a naturalistic philosopher mainly interested in the social and passionate aspects of our lives, we have witnessed an explosion of interpretations arguing that there are two ideas of the self in the Treatise.1 On the one hand, the idea of self as a bundle of perceptions discussed in "Of personal identity" at the end of Book 1,2 and, on the other hand, an idea of self produced by the passions and of relevance to Hume's practical philosophy dealt with in Books 2 and 3. Just to mention a few, we have Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, who is actually a forerunner to Baier, Pauline Chazan, Susan Purviance, and less clearcut ..

Childhood and youth: loss of faith and a passion for literature -- "At a distance from relations": writing his treatise in France -- Hume after the treatise -- Hume as librarian and historian -- Hume's life as a man in the public eye -- Hume's final years in Edinburgh -- Death and character.