David Hume

David Hume and Immanuel Kant are both known for their great contributions to moral philosophy. Hume who is mainly known for his empiricism, skepticism and naturalism and Kant who is best recognized for his great work in metaphysics, ethics and also for his contributions in others disciplines in the area of philosophy. Although they were both exceptional philosophers and gave stupendous apports, Hume and Kant agreed nor differed in various aspect and ideas. Hume believed and is…

Being perceived as being morally right is reliant on a person’s feelings towards a topic, rather than their reasoning. David Hume, an empiricist, opposed the idea that having practical reasoning and being able to apply it was a form of being morally right. Moral actions are based off the faith of that person. According to Albom, “ Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.” Being practical follows a rationalistic view, and you are then neglecting the numerous…

philosopher, David Hume attempted to establish his opinion on the existence of God by critiquing the widely accepted ideals set forth by Descartes. Hume delivers convincing arguments against both the Ontological and Design Arguments by using his distinction between matters of…

Hume: Week One Question In, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume, “Section IV- Sceptical Doubts” and “Section V- Sceptical Solution of These Doubts”, Hume writes about the happening of things and, that experience of the past can lead to expectations of what will happen subsequently, or that one may experience something similar that has been experienced before. Then in “Section V- Sceptical Solution of These Doubts”, he wrote about the principle of custom or habit, the…

In this essay, the philosophical positions of Immanuel Kant and David Hume will be discussed with regards to the relationship between reason and morality, and the role of sympathy in moral motivation and judgement will be assessed. Through their respective works, they both propose different positions and standpoints on the issue of morality. Hume’s position of morality comes from feelings, emotions and passions, whereas Kant believed that morality is based on reason and a duty that applies to a…

David Hume once said, “ Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions.” He wrote this in his book Treatise on Human Nature. Hume was obsessed with learning about how people obtain knowledge. The answer is quite simple, through experience. We all entered this world as an infant; we had to learn what behavior was expected of us and what we were expected to give in return all through experience. Hume’s thought could be summarized as “One cannot derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’.” This is a…

Stradella analyzes how Hume's notions of beauty and taste relate, respectively, to the individual and the social. Stradella speaks of the missing dialectical structure of the essay. Hume has an inclusion of realistic methodical examples, using anecdotes related to “voyage of discovery” that make the aesthetic harder to define. Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" is often read as an essay in criticism expounding a causal theory of beauty…

David Hume was a well known Scottish philosopher who lived in the period of 1711-1776 and was greatly recognized for his empiricism and skepticism. He held a strong belief that the idea of knowledge is something practical, straightforward and clear, which essentially led to the formation of his famous “Copy Principle.” In his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume expands on the concepts of experience and senses as means of providing knowledge. Before analyzing the degree of validity of…

interaction given by David Hume in his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. My aim is to explain the way that one’s ideas about a particular cause are related to an idea of a particular effect, such that the first event actually caused the second event. This will require an understanding of the technical philosophical language used by Hume as well as a deep look into the logic he used to build his theory. In the later part of the essay, I will discuss a specific example that shows how Hume…

David Hume was one of the most influential philosophers of his time and continues to be mentioned and studies to this day. Almost equally as impressive was the response that philosopher Immanuel Kant had to his Inquiry of Human Understanding. Kant attempted to respond to Hume’s ideas and in this essay, I will identify the Hume’s beliefs behind the concepts such as cause, and effect and I will later defend Kant’s response to Hume. He raises points that leave his reader with a deeper understanding…