David Hume

Who is David Hume

David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume followed John Locke in rejecting the existence of innate ideas, concluding that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as an empiricist.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights about the following:

Chapter 1: David Hume

Chapter 2: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Chapter 3: Deism

Chapter 4: Empiricism

Chapter 5: John Locke

Chapter 6: Natural theology

Chapter 7: Philosophy of religion

Chapter 8: Reason

Chapter 9: T. H. Green

Chapter 10: J. L. Mackie

Chapter 11: Associationism

Chapter 12: J. Baird Callicott

Chapter 13: Fact-value distinction

Chapter 14: George Campbell (minister)

Chapter 15: Metaphysical naturalism

Chapter 16: Ernest Campbell Mossner

Chapter 17: Four Dissertations

Chapter 18: Of Miracles

Chapter 19: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Chapter 20: Moral rationalism

Chapter 21: British philosophy

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about David Hume.

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