About the Author David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published.Hume attended the Un
- Title : Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hpc Philosophical Classics Ser.)
- Author : David Hume
- Rating : 4.87 (219 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-2-21
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 128 Pages
- Asin : 091514445X
- Language : English
About the Author David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published.Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume died in 1776. . Hume s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded himHume engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, James Boswell, and Adam Smith (who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy). He argued that inductive reasoning and therefore causality cannot be justified rationally. Hume's compatibilist theory of free will proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy. In light of Hume's central role in the Scottish Enlightenment, and in the history of Western philosophy, Bryan Magee judged him as a philosopher "widely regarded as the greatest who has ever written in the English language." While Hume failed in his attempts to start a university career, he took part in various diplomatic and military missions of the time. Immanuel Kant credited Hume with awakening him from "dogmatic slumbers".. In addition, according to philosopher Jerry Fodor, Hume's Treatise is "the founding document of cognitive science". His empirical approach places him with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others at the time as a British Empiricist. He concluded that humans have no actual conception of the self, only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self. Hume has proved extremely influential on subsequent western philosophy, especially on utilitarianism, logical positivism, William James, the philosophy of sciDavid Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published. Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on co
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