Brittany Kozlowski
Dr. Bachyrycz
Philosophy 120
12/11/14
In the middle of the 18th century there was a great philosopher named David Hume. Hume could be compared to some of the best philosophers to ever exist. Hume was a man that was committed to the truth. Hume believed in determinism which is the view that all events, including human actions, are necessitated, or caused, by conditions prior to the occurrence of the event. Hume said “It is universally allowed that matter in all its operations, is activated by a necessary force, and that every natural effect is so precisely determined by the energy of its cause, that no other effect in such particular circumstances, could possibly have resulted from it” (pg.88). Hume first wanted to prove …show more content…
This objection is focused on finding the origin of actions to do that we need to ask ourselves what an action was caused by usually the answer is the choice an individual made. Then we want to ask what caused that choice and that leads us to the character/ psychology of that individual. The psychology/ character of that individual were caused by human nature, environment, genetics, customs, education and many more reasons. This would make us wonder what caused all those factors and we can continue the long casual chain. We can conclude that everything has a cause as was shown by the continued chains of necessary causes. If we even wanted to we could take the time to make these chains long enough to get us to the beginning of time which will lead us to the original cause of everything being God. Since God is the original cause of everything then we can conclude two things. The first objection is that no human is evil or can commit a bad action since God is perfect and the ultimate cause of all actions. The actions that we may think are bad can appear good if we look at the bigger picture of God’s creation of the world as a whole. Hume’s reaction to this objection is that people’s attitude of praise and blame does not come from sympathy of Gods higher purpose but from what encourages peace and stability between human interactions. The other objection is that if human actions can be evil then God is partly to blame. That means that God has limited powers or he is responsible for creating anything evil in the world. Hume response to this objection is that we have a hard time trying to understand human minds as it is. If we can’t figure out human minds easily it will be an even harder process to understand Gods wills and
Dr. Bachyrycz
Philosophy 120
12/11/14
In the middle of the 18th century there was a great philosopher named David Hume. Hume could be compared to some of the best philosophers to ever exist. Hume was a man that was committed to the truth. Hume believed in determinism which is the view that all events, including human actions, are necessitated, or caused, by conditions prior to the occurrence of the event. Hume said “It is universally allowed that matter in all its operations, is activated by a necessary force, and that every natural effect is so precisely determined by the energy of its cause, that no other effect in such particular circumstances, could possibly have resulted from it” (pg.88). Hume first wanted to prove …show more content…
This objection is focused on finding the origin of actions to do that we need to ask ourselves what an action was caused by usually the answer is the choice an individual made. Then we want to ask what caused that choice and that leads us to the character/ psychology of that individual. The psychology/ character of that individual were caused by human nature, environment, genetics, customs, education and many more reasons. This would make us wonder what caused all those factors and we can continue the long casual chain. We can conclude that everything has a cause as was shown by the continued chains of necessary causes. If we even wanted to we could take the time to make these chains long enough to get us to the beginning of time which will lead us to the original cause of everything being God. Since God is the original cause of everything then we can conclude two things. The first objection is that no human is evil or can commit a bad action since God is perfect and the ultimate cause of all actions. The actions that we may think are bad can appear good if we look at the bigger picture of God’s creation of the world as a whole. Hume’s reaction to this objection is that people’s attitude of praise and blame does not come from sympathy of Gods higher purpose but from what encourages peace and stability between human interactions. The other objection is that if human actions can be evil then God is partly to blame. That means that God has limited powers or he is responsible for creating anything evil in the world. Hume response to this objection is that we have a hard time trying to understand human minds as it is. If we can’t figure out human minds easily it will be an even harder process to understand Gods wills and