David Hume

A man who could be considered ahead of his own time during the 18th century would be David Hume, a Scottish native and enlightenment leader. Hume adopted to Locke’s theory “that at birth the human mind is a “tabula rasa” or blank slate waiting to be written on by experience” (Badiou). His work in “A Treatise of Human Nature” is one of few theories on how human beings build knowledge upon their feelings, and what they have experience and return causes them to think ideas and develop their…

David Hume drew our attention to the popular problem about inductive reasoning, which can be seen as an argument that cannot provide a circular justification for inductive reasoning. However, Nelson Goodman’s problem is different, because he is not questioning how we can justify induction, but rather what kinds of inductive practices are valid, and unfortunately, there is no clear answer to this question. In this paper, I will be explaining Goodman’s «New Riddle of Induction» and how we can…

Josh Kennedy’s film Two and a Quarter explores what a person thinks about in their final minutes before they drown. The movie starts out with a young boy who decides to drown himself, but in the two and quarter minutes it takes an average person to drown, he thinks about his past and his future. This makes him decide to get out of the pool, and in this decision he learns to appreciate the people he surrounds himself with more. However, you might argue that it wasn’t a decision for him to get out…

One must look for the auxiliary that comes right after the phrase label as the subject. 8. (2 points) According to Wierzbicka, CAUSE/BECAUSE is an innate concept, not something people learn. Would David Hume agree? Steven Pinker? Very briefly explain. David Hume will not agree with Wierzbicka idea. Hume did/does believe that…

Edmund Morgan, an American historian and a previous history professor at Yale University, unveils how slavery was able to exist in America while liberty was held at the highest of standards in his journal Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox. After sifting through the stories of our nations founding fathers and most important men of the American Revolution his discovers that, unlike most other historians, the fopaux we call slavery did not begin as a racist act. Morgan also discovered that…

Personal identity refers to certain properties that make a person feel a special sense of attachment or ownership. Both philosophers John Locke and Rene Descartes had contrasting views about one’s working mind. Descartes believes that the mind cannot be identical to the body whereas Locke emphasizes that our bodies and mind are the same thing. Locke’s ideas on personal identity are primarily focused on memory, whereas Descartes is focused on the “thinking mind.” The thinking mind is our way of…

I say Hume is wrong. In my opinion, a wise person should base their belief on the weight of evidence that is presented. It is foolish to believe that evidence for natural events outweighs the evidence for miracles. For example, the Big Bang Theory, which many scientists believe to be true, is an event that will never repeat itself. It’s a highly rare event, but if we followed Hume’s belief, it would be considered irrational to believe in the Big Bang Theory. It contradicts our uniform…

Enlightenment. Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. These are debts. Enlightenment is moving forward in a positive and efficient manner. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons that such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long emancipated them from alien guidance, nevertheless gladly remain immature for life. This means that a man can totally mature physically, but remain immature in the way he acts or lives his life even though his body is ready to…

Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, was born and raised in Konigsberg, a city in East Prussia, on April 22nd, 1724. He was born into a family devoted to Pietism, a Protestant sect. Being apart of this movement, Kant and his family believed in simplicity and obedience to moral law, and as a result, lived puritanical lives. Kant attended the local university and made a living as a private tutor. Following this, he worked as a private teacher at the university until being officially hired to teach…

minute. It is all a matter of the enormous complexity by which the results were achieved, which looked to me like the work of intelligence. Even though there are arguments that agree with Paley there are criticisms. Paley’s view can be criticised by Hume who is a major opponent of the design…