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Published in 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume's distillation of his mature philosophy. Addressing themes including the limits of human understanding, the compatibility of free will with determinism, weaknesses in the foundations of religion, and the appeal of skepticism, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is Hume's attempt to revise and clarify the ideas of his earlier A Treatise of Human Nature.

This short set of poems is an expression of our universal need for connection, to ourselves as well as to others, in the most practical and human way possible. Within this beautiful connection to ourselves and others is an essential reconnection to and reconciliation with our shared consciousness. This is, I believe, the ground of our being and the fundamental reality. It seems to me that in order to arrive at this place of intimate connection, it is necessary for us to return to the present, and there, to let go of the past and the illusion of the future.

La historia sigue a Segismundo, un príncipe encarcelado desde su nacimiento por su padre, el rey Basilio, debido a una profecía que predice que Segismundo se convertirá en un tirano. A través de una serie de eventos dramáticos, Calderón de la Barca teje una reflexión filosófica sobre la vida y los sueños, cuestionando la realidad misma.