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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.”
Jan 22, 2013 · Even today, argument rages as to what Hume’s view on personal identity really was. I have mentioned the Reid-inspired ‘no-ownership’ view of self, often attributed (wrongly I believe) to Hume. And there are views other than those I have expressed as to why Hume said his ‘hopes vanish’.
Dec 14, 2007 · On the classical interpretation this is how Hume’s core arguments should be understood. As Hume’s title “Of liberty and necessity” makes plain there are two key ideas in play are “liberty” (freedom) and “necessity” (causation and determinism).
May 16, 2022 · David Hume’s concept of the self does not only differ from but runs counter to Descartes’s and the other philosophers of the self, such as Plato and Aristotle. This is because, for Hume, there is no such thing as a “self”. Let me briefly explain why for Hume the concept of the self is an illusion.
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
Hume at least asserts that adherence to justice is always in our interest, even prior to the existence of sanctions for violations.2 In Òìe Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume provides an even more direct defense of justice than that found in the Treatise. In fact, Hume
HUME ON IDENTITY: A DEFENSE (Received 12 December, 1980) In his classic article Hume on Personal Identity, Terence Penelhum charges that Hume, in maintaining that we are always mistaken in ascribing identity to persons, has made "an elementary error" and fallen victim to a conceptual "'muddle".'
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