An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a book by
Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other
things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) is the enquiry
subsequent to the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (EHU). Thus, it
is often referred to as "the second Enquiry". It was originally published in
1751, three years after the first Enquiry. Hume first discusses ethics in A
Treatise of Human Nature (in Book 3 - "Of Morals"). He later extracted and
expounded upon the ideas he proposed there in his second Enquiry. In his short
autobiographical work, My Own Life (1776), Hume states that his second
Enquiry is "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary,
incomparably the best."

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.