Alex’s Reviews > 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 > Status Update

This dialogue between Hume and his buddy pretending to be Epicurus is slaughtering Plato's Socratic dialogues in style (though of course I'm reading this in it's original language) and strength. No straw men here.

Despite my near-religious listening to Partially Examined Life and The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, and my passion for philosophical fiction, I haven't read a whole lot of philosophy proper. Hume's prose is wonderful. He's pumping me up for more reading along these lines.

I hadn't expected Hume's prose to be so tasty.