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   What was David Hume famous for?

   • David Hume is famous for the elegance of his prose, for his radical empiricism, for his skepticism of religion, for his critical account of causation, for his naturalistic theory of mind, for his thesis that “ reason is...the slave of the passions,” and for waking Immanuel Kant from his “dogmatic slumber,” as Kant himself admitted.

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   What did David Hume think about religion?

   • Hume presented a positive view of human nature but a sceptical view of religion 's usefulness. His Treatise of Human Nature was later a hugely influential philosophical work, but his fame and fortune in his own lifetime came from his popular six-volume History of England. David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 7 May 1711.

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   Was David Hume a skeptic?

   • David Hume - Philosopher, Enlightenment, Skepticism: That Hume was one of the major figures of his century can hardly be doubted. So his contemporaries thought, and his achievement, as seen in historical perspective, confirms that judgment, though with a shift of emphasis.

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   Why is Hume important today?

   • Today, philosophers recognize Hume as a thoroughgoing exponent of philosophical naturalism, as a precursor of contemporary cognitive science, and as the inspiration for several of the most significant types of ethical theory developed in contemporary moral philosophy. 1. Life and Works 2. The relation between the Treatise and the Enquiries 3.

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   6 days ago · Why is David Hume famous? David Hume is famous for the elegance of his prose, for his radical empiricism , for his skepticism of religion , for his critical account of causation , for his naturalistic theory of mind , for his thesis that “ reason is...the slave of the passions,” and for waking Immanuel Kant from his “dogmatic slumber ...

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   Feb 26, 2001 · Why, Hume asks, haven’t philosophers been able to make the spectacular progress in understanding human nature that natural philosophers—whom we now call “scientists”—have recently achieved in the physical sciences?

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   David Hume (/ h juː m /; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

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   The most famous of Hume’s anti-mercantilist arguments is now called Hume’s gold-flow theory, and appears in his essays “Of Money” (1752) and “Of the Balance of Trade” (1752). Contrary to mercantilists who advocated locking up money in one’s home country, Hume argued that increased money in one country automatically disperses to ...

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   Dec 14, 2023 · David Hume is famous for being a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher who challenged the usefulness of religion and promoted the value of the senses and experience in our acquisition of knowledge. He also wrote a popular history of England.