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Andrew Blitz (born June 28, 1971) is an American comedian, writer, producer and actor best known for his sketch comedy and writing work on the late-night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He has received nine Emmy Award nominations.
In his autobiography written near the end of his life, David Hume describes himself as a “man of mild disposition, of command of temper, of an open, social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions.” [Read More]
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January 29, 2024. Called “a degenerate son of science” by Thomas Jefferson and a “bungling lawgiver” by James Madison, Scottish philosopher David Hume was cited so often at the Constitutional Convention that delegates seemed to have committed his essays to memory.
Feb 26, 2001 · David Hume. First published Mon Feb 26, 2001; substantive revision Fri May 15, 2009. The most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume (1711-1776) — the last of the great triumvirate of “British empiricists” — was also well-known in his own time as an historian and essayist.
Feb 26, 2001 · Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (b. 1711, d. 1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical works— A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and ...
David Hume was born in Edinburgh on 26 April 1711. He matriculated at Edinburgh University on 27 February 1723, at the age of eleven, and probably left the University as late as 1726. He took up law, which he abandoned in 1729, worked for a while for a Bristol sugar merchant, and then went to study in France.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. [1] . It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40.
