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Apr 2, 2024 · Quotes. > Quotable Quote. (?) “Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent.
Apr 17, 2024 · April 17, 2024 | Book Excerpts, Political Science and Theory. Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume has had an outsized impact on the political thinkers who came after him, from the nineteenth-century British Utilitarians to modern American social contract theorists.
Mar 28, 2024 · Sam. 274 books. view quotes. Jul 22, 2013 10:05AM. « previous 1 2 next ». David Hume — ‘It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause’.
Apr 16, 2024 · One of the authorities most widely quoted by New Atheism is the Scottish sceptic David Hume (1711-76). Thanks to his fierce rebuttal of the miraculous back in the eighteenth century, it’s not hard to see why he’s so popular with non-believers.
Apr 9, 2024 · David Hume and Adam Smith: A Japanese Perspective. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 297. ISBN 9780367683023. Hardback. £130. This book is a collection of essays and articles by the Japanese scholar Tatsuya Sakamoto. In the foreword, Ryu Susato, professor of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, Tokyo, notes that in Japanese ...
Apr 10, 2024 · view quotes. Oct 07, 2017 05:21PM. « previous 1 2 next ». David Hume — ‘But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.’.
Apr 2, 2024 · ABSTRACT. David Hume’s philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief. This book reconciles this conflict by showing that Hume intended his scepticism to be remedial.
