David Hume left Scotland and went to France

David Hume moved to France when he was 25 years old because he lacked professional skills and a reliable source of income. He accepted a position as a librarian at the University of Edinburgh in France. He reached a turning point in his life in 1734 and retreated to France for three years after trying his hand in a merchant's office in Bristol.

A Treatise of Human Nature author David Hume spent the majority of this time at La Flèche on the Loire, in the former Anjou, studying and writing it. He made a career change in 1734 and retired to France for three years after trying his hand in a merchant's office in Bristol. The majority of this time was spent studying and composing A Treatise of Human Nature at La Flèche on the Loire, in the former Anjou. He had just turned 26 years old.

Hume made an effort to develop a complete philosophical framework in The Treatise. There are three books in it: The topics covered in Book I, "Of the Understanding," are knowledge and probability, the origin of ideas, and the concepts of space and time. In Book II, "Of the Passions," the author provides a complex psychological framework for explaining the affective, or emotional, order in humans and places reason in a supporting position within this framework. The morality section of Book III describes moral excellence in terms of "feelings" of approval or disapproval that people have when they evaluate human activity in light of favorable or unfavorable results, either to themselves or to others.