David Hume
David Hume (; born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with ''A Treatise of Human Nature'' (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume followed John Locke in rejecting the existence of innate ideas, concluding that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as an empiricist.Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events. This problem of induction means that to draw any causal inferences from past experience, it is necessary to presuppose that the future will resemble the past; this metaphysical presupposition cannot itself be grounded in prior experience.
An opponent of philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behaviour, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions." Hume was also a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle. He maintained an early commitment to naturalistic explanations of moral phenomena and is usually accepted by historians of European philosophy to have first clearly expounded the is–ought problem, or the idea that a statement of fact alone can never give rise to a normative conclusion of what ''ought'' to be done.
Hume denied that humans have an actual conception of the self, positing that we experience only a bundle of sensations, and that the self is nothing more than this bundle of perceptions connected by an association of ideas. Hume's compatibilist theory of free will takes causal determinism as fully compatible with human freedom. His philosophy of religion, including his rejection of miracles, and of the argument from design for God's existence, were especially controversial for their time. Hume left a legacy that affected utilitarianism, logical positivism, the philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, cognitive science, theology, and many other fields and thinkers. Immanuel Kant credited Hume as the inspiration that had awakened him from his "dogmatic slumbers." Provided by Wikipedia
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Traité de la nature humaine : essai pour introduire la méthode expérimentale dans les sujets moraux / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Investigación sobre el entendimiento humano / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Ensayos políticos / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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De los prejuicios morales y otros ensayos / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Sobre las falsas creencias : del suicidio, la inmortalidad del alma y las supersticiones / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Tratado de la naturaleza humana : autobiografía / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Disertación sobre las pasiones y otros ensayos morales / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Tratado de la naturaleza humana : autobiografía / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Investigación sobre el entendimiento humano / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Investigación sobre el conocimiento humano / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Investigación sobre los principios de la moral / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Tratado de la naturaleza humana / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Historia general de Inglaterra desde los tiempos remotos continuada hasta nuestros días / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Ensayos políticos / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Investigación sobre el entendimiento humano / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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Tratado de la naturaleza humana : ensayo para introducir el método del razonamiento experimental en los asuntos morales / by Hume, David, 1711-1776
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La identidad personal en Hume. by García de Oteyza, Mercedes
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Ensayos políticos de David Hume / by Hendel, Charles W.
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Humes verborgener Rationalismus. by Kreimendahl, Lothar
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A letter concerning toleration ; Concerning civil government, second essay an Essay concerning human understanding / by Locke, John, 1632-1704
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