David Hume

Hume was smarter than he looked: 'His face is by no means an index of his ingenuity of his mind, especially of his delicacy and vivacity wrote one visitor.

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Many -- including your present guide -- regard the Scotsman David Hume (1711-76) as the greatest of all philosophers who have written in English. He was the wide-ranging intellect: his multi-volume ‘History of England’ had the effect that is his lifetime he was equally well known as a historian, and he also wrote essays on political (many constitutional) questions and on economics. All of this he saw as contributing to a single broad project, the study of human nature. His youthful masterpiece, published in 1739/40 is called ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’ oll.libertyfund.org/title/bigge-a-treatise-of-human-nature in three books it deals with human beliefs, emotions, and moral judgments. What are they and what produces them?

Hume’s writings on these questions are shaped by a deeply held conviction ;about that human beings are. Equally important to him was a conviction about what we aren’t, a particular delusion which had to be overcome before anything more positive would have a chance of taking hold of our minds. Remember that most great philosophy doesn’t just add/subtract one or two facts to/from our previous beliefs; it removes a whole way of thinking and places with another. There may be a lot of minute details within in . . . Page 24

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