Zeynab Tajik Apr 30, 2020:

You're most welcome!

asal (asker) Apr 30, 2020:

hi thank you Mrs.Tajik... very helpful

Zeynab Tajik Apr 28, 2020:

‫در طول سال‌هاي 1734 تا 1737 يعني تا پيش از سي‌سالگي نخستين كتاب مهمش در فلسفه يعني رساله‌اي در باب طبيعت بشري (A Treatise of Human Nature) را منتشر كرد، در سه جلد و بدون نام مولف. چندان استقبالي از كتاب نشد، خودش نوشت كه كتاب «از طبع مرده به دنيا آمد» بدون آنكه حتي «زمزمه‌اي از ميان متعصبان» برانگيزد.

http://www.etemadnewspaper.ir/fa/main/detail/58911

Sina Salehi Apr 28, 2020:

Yes. We are referring to the same source. He is talking about his own trearise.

asal (asker) Apr 28, 2020:

and this is what I've found about the phrase: According to him, the book “fell dead-born from the press.” Believing that the failure of the Treatise “proceeded more from the manner than the matter,” Hume reworked his ideas into the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) and the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751).

Sina Salehi Apr 28, 2020:

Hume is talking about his own tratise. Pleasee refer tö the link below for more info.

Hume returned to London in 1737 to see the book through the final stages of (anonymous) publication and was sorely disappointed with the result. According to him, the book “fell dead-born from the press.” Believing that the failure of the Treatise “proceeded more from the manner than the matter
https://thegreatthinkers.org/hume/biography/

asal (asker) Apr 28, 2020:

did he mean the Kant's book? or he was talking about his own book. as in in this sentence it says that Kant published his book 40 years after...
more context:
Boswell thought him Britain’s greatest writer, and he was certainly the country’s greatest philosopher. In 1739, at age twenty-seven, Hume published The Treatise of Human Nature, the book that Immanuel Kant said had awakened him from his dogmatic slumber and that prompted him to write the Critique of Pure Reason to answer Hume. But Kant published his book more than forty years after Hume’s treatise, which in its own day, said Hume, “fell dead-born from the press.”2