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David Hume (/ h juː m /; born David Home; 7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the ...
Feb 26, 2001 · Bibliography Primary Literature Hume’s Works. The standard critical edition of Hume’s philosophical writings is The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, currently in progress.The General Editors are Tom L. Beauchamp, the late David Fate Norton, and the late M.A. Stewart.
Jun 6, 2024 · Hume was the younger son of Joseph Hume, the modestly circumstanced laird, or lord, of Ninewells, a small estate adjoining the village of Chirnside, about nine miles distant from Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scottish side of the border.David’s mother, Catherine, a daughter of Sir David Falconer, president of the Scottish court of session, was in Edinburgh when he was born.
David Hume (1711—1776) “Hume is our Politics, Hume is our Trade, Hume is our Philosophy, Hume is our Religion, — it wants little but that Hume is even our Taste”.
Oct 29, 2004 · Hume’s position in ethics, which is based on his empiricist theory of the mind, is best known for asserting four theses: (1) Reason alone cannot be a motive to the will, but rather is the “slave of the passions” (see Section 3) (2) Moral distinctions are not derived from reason (see Section 4). (3) Moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiments: feelings of approval (esteem ...
Feb 26, 2001 · Other works by Hume and editions of Hume's writings are: Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, edited by Norman Kemp Smith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935; The Natural History of Religion, edited by H. E. Root, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967; Essays, Moral, Political, Literary, edited by Eugene F. Miller, Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985
A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web.
Jun 6, 2024 · David Hume - Philosopher, Empiricism, Skepticism: Hume conceived of philosophy as the inductive science of human nature, and he concluded that humans are creatures more of sensitive and practical sentiment than of reason. For many philosophers and historians his importance lies in the fact that Immanuel Kant conceived his critical philosophy in direct reaction to Hume (Kant said that Hume had ...
In the introduction to his Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume (1711–1776) describes the intellectual scene before him as a “noise and clamour” in which every trivial question was debated, but nothing important ever settled.Hence arose “a common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings of all kinds, even among those, who profess themselves scholars.”
The Hume Society is an international organization of scholars whose purpose is to stimulate scholarship on all aspects of the thought and writings of David Hume, the 18th-century Scottish philosopher, historian and essayist. Membership in the society is open to everyone interested in Hume and his philosophical and literary contemporaries.
