Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of an Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingThis is the first full book length study in forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding which, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, aiming to raise it to its rightful position in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often assumed, a mere collection of watered down