Hume

Hume

 Definition:

Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism who was born in 1711 to a moderately wealthy family from Berwickshire Scotland, near Edinburgh.
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Part of Hume’s fame and importance owes to his boldly skeptical approach to a range of philosophical subjects.

“Hume is our Politics, Hume is our Trade, Hume is our Philosophy, Hume is our Religion.”
Hume’s skeptical claim is that we have no experience of a simple, individual impression that we can call the self—where the “self” is the totality of a person’s conscious life.
Usage:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/
David Hume
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/hume.html
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    David Hume was a Scottish philosopher. historian and economist.  He uses empricists philosophy which is a view of causality, the problem of induction, and the distinction between fact and value.   Hume also works with various forms of moderate or mitigated skepticism.  He was a harsh critic of metaphysics and religion.  His first and most famous and successful works was Treatise of Human Nature.  One of his works, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, argues about his views on the natural religion of the British Royal Society.
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