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- “In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.
- “Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” ― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
- “Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
- “The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”
- There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse. David Hume. Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Refuse.
- A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume. Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge.
- When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken. David Hume. Men, Stupidity, Arrogance.
- All knowledge degenerates into probability. David Hume. Knowledge, Science, Degenerates.
Dec 14, 2007 · According to the classical account, Hume’s effort to articulate the conditions of moral responsibility, and the way they relate to the free will problem, should be understood primarily in terms of his views about the logic of the concepts of “liberty” and “necessity”.
Jan 22, 2013 · What is Hume’s view on personal identity? Answer by Craig Skinner. This can be summed up in three short quotes. I will give these, and say a little about each. 1. ‘The essence of the mind…equally unknown to us with that of external bodies’ (‘A Treatise of Human Nature’, 1739, Introduction, para. 8). 2.
Jul 1, 2014 · This chapter aims to relate Hume’s discussion of liberty and necessity to central themes in his philosophy, including causation, the self, the distinction between virtue and vice, and naturalism as a response to skepticism.
Hume is a great philosopher and it seems unlikely that one of the central theses of the Treatise is merely the result of blunders. In this paper I will argue that Penelhum has misconstrued Hume's argu-ment and Hume's enterprise. Hume is presenting a fundamental metaphysical problem about identity through change (a problem as old as Heracleitus ...
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THE secondary literature on Hume's Treatise of Human Nature contains two major criticisms of the bundle theory of the self. The first centers on the problem of specifying a criterion by which perceptions can be grouped together into individual bundles. Given that the mind is simply a collection of perceptions (as Hume said), by what principle
