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| | David Hume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hume's early essay Of Superstition and Religion laid the foundations for nearly all secular thinking about the history of religion. | | | Hume gave the classic criticism of the design argument in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and though the issue is far from dead, many are convinced that Hume killed the argument for good. | | | One of the oldest and most popular arguments for the existence of God is the design argument – that all the order and 'purpose' in the world bespeaks a divine origin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
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| | David Hume: Metaphysical and Epistemological Theories [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Hume “left college” at around age 14, and, according to his letter to Elliot, he began his work on the Treatise at age 21. | | | Hume was probably influenced by Descartes’s provisional doubting process, as Hume himself doubted the sources of human knowledge. | | | Hume is, therefore, the principal precursor of Comte, as he himself acknowledges. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/humeepis.htm
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| | David Hume: Life and Writings [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Second, it is reasonable to believe that she witnessed Hume in anguish, especially in his final weeks, and that Hume’s mannerisms changed when his guests left. | | | Notes: collection of letters to Hume from Hume's personal collection of letters and manuscripts. | | | In one passage Hume notes that the first Protestant reformers were fanatical or "inflamed with the highest enthusiasm" in their opposition to Roman Catholic domination. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/humelife.htm
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| | David Hume |
| | Hume reinforced this perspective when he wrote Gilbert Elliot of Minto that "the philosophical principles are the same in both...by shortening and simplifying the questions, I really render them much more complete" (HL, I:158). | | | Hume added "Of Tragedy" and "Of the Standard of Taste" to round out the volume, which also included The Natural History of Religion and A Dissertation on the Passions. | | | Hume's insight was to see that getting the correct mixture requires a two-fold task, with negative and positive aspects. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume
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| | David Hume (1711-1777) - By Miles Hodges |
| | This was the realm of beliefs that Hume found reasonably acceptable--provided that we understood them as beliefs and not established fact. | | | In fact it was Hume that awoke Kant from his "intellectual slumber" (as Kant himself put it) and caused Kant to undertake the task of responding to the challenge that Hume had issued to those who would claim to understand human nature, even life itself. | | | True, for Hume there was no question that ideas could become fanciful--and thus at a bit of a remove from the realm of direct perception. |
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http://www.newgenevacenter.org/biography/hume2.htm
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| | Hume Bibliography (Potkay) |
| | Sees Hume's Natural History of Religion the center-piece of his religious thought. | | | Hume and M. Rousseau; with the Letters That Passed between Them during their Controversy (London, 1766). | | | As an instructive contrast to Mossner's serene and saintly Hume, Greig offers us a more feisty and pugnacious character. |
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| | Hume Links |
| | Notes on W.T. Jones' account of David Hume | | | Robert Koons, "Critiques of the Design Argument: Hume" | | | A Brief biography of Hume, with some related hyperlinks --> |
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| | Hume |
| | David Hume's was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant. | | | He thought religion, on a whole, was a bad thing. | | | He wrote that reason should be slave to the passions. |
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| | The Philosophy of David Hume - Page 1 |
| | Besides the works already mentioned, other important ones by Hume are: Natural History of Religion, and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. | | | Nor was he guided by any dogmatic or religious principles, such as those which had led Berkeley to admit the existence of spiritual substance. | | | is an actual vivid perception which, as Hume says, brings with it conviction or positive belief in the existence of a corresponding objective reality. |
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http://radicalacademy.com/phildavidhume1.htm
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| | Hume Shifts the Burden of Proof |
| | The course of science in the 19th and 20th centuries would have astonished Hume, as it certainly discredits the foundation of his predictions for the future of human knowledge. | | | Although Hume has already said, "Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence" [p. | | | Those who would assert that this position is not universally true nor without exception, have only one, and that an easy method of refuting it; by producing that idea, which, in their opinion, is not derived from this source. |
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| | David Hume |
| | The argument against belief in miracles that Hume omitted from A Treatise of Human Nature later appeared in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. | | | Philosophy of Religion / Reference / Biographies / Historic Figures / David Hume | | | Hume delayed the publication of his major work on the philosophy of religion, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, until after his death, due to the controversial nature of its contents. |
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| | Hume, D |
| | David Hume: Works and Autograph Letters (chuo-u.ac.jp) (in Japanese) | | | The Natural History of Religion (virginia.edu) due to licensing requirements | | | On such topics as monetary theory, international trade and population growth, he was not equalled even by Adam Smith, a close friend on whom he had an enormous influence. |
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http://www.cpm.ll.ehime-u.ac.jp/AkamacHomePage/Akamac_E-text_Links/Hume.html
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| | Hume, David on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Hume's attack on rationalism is also evident in his two works on religion; in these he rejects any rational or natural theology. | | | His other philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748; a simplified version of the first book of the Treatise), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). | | | Hume also wrote an exhaustive History of England (1754-62), whose purity of style overcame the frequent faultiness of fact and made the work the standard history of England for many years. |
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| | David HUME |
| | The Latter-Will and Testament of David Hume, 1776 | | | Hume's most famous contributions are in international trade. | | | Hume's contributions to economics are found mostly in his Political Discourses (1752), which were later incorporated into his Essays (1758). |
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| | DAVID HUME |
| | Can I be sure that in leaving all establish'd opinions I am following the truth?" | | | In the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume examines and largely refutes the argument from design upon which the natural religion of the British Royal Society was founded. | | | Hume Archives, including an electronic text of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, various reviews of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature as well as accounts of Hume's life, both biographical and autobiographical. |
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http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/hume.html
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| | Philosophers - Hume |
| | Adam Smith wrote of Hume that "upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit". | | | Hume is the most influentual thoroughgoing naturalist in modern philosophy, and a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment. | | | Born the second son of a minor Scottish landowner, Hume attended Edinburgh University. |
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http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/phil/filosofer/hume.html
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| | Hume |
| | (1780), Hume discussed the possibility of arriving at certain knowledge of god through the application of reason and considered defense of a fideistic alternative. | | | In similar fashion, Hume argued that we cannot justify our natural beliefs in the reality of the self or the existence of an external world. | | | In both texts Hume clearly maintained that human agency and moral obligation are best considered as functions of human passions rather than as the dictates of reason. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hume.htm
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| | David Hume - Wikiquote |
| | As every enquiry, which regards religion, is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular, which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning its origin in human nature. | | | Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. | | | Wikisource has original works written by or about David Hume. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume
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| | David Hume, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | David Hume, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty | | | Surprisingly, even though Hume's idea would have bolstered Adam Smith's attack on mercantilism and argument for free trade, Smith ignored Hume's argument. | | | Hume's argument was essentially the monetarist quantity theory of money: prices in a country change directly with changes in the money supply. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Hume.html
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| | David Hume Project |
| | Hume scholars are invited to offer their work for publication here, but such work will be accepted only with the written agreement of the copyright holder, and only if the author guarantees that the work is in a reliable and permanent form. | | | This project will publish not only works by Hume himself, but also works associated with him, from contemporary sources to essays by modern scholars. | | | For scholars the main interest of the site will be the text of a number of early reviews, commentaries and biographies, which are otherwise difficult to obtain. |
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http://www.etext.leeds.ac.uk/hume
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| | David Hume Index |
| | There are More Texts by and about Hume at the Hume Archive |
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http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume
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| | David Hume -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | For it was from Hume that Madison seems to have acquired a view about factions that turned the issue of the desirability of larger political associations—i.e., those larger than the... | | | Although Berkeley rejected the Lockean notions of primary and secondary qualities and matter, he retained Locke's beliefs in the existence of mind, substance, and causation as an unseen force or power in objects. | | | Hume conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental science of human nature. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108377
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| | The Hume Society |
| | The Hume Society is an international organization whose purpose is to stimulate scholarship on all aspects of Hume's thought and writings. | | | 33rd International Hume Conference Koblenz, 7-10 August 2006. | | | 34th International Hume Conference Boston, Massachusetts, 7-12 August 2007. |
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| | David Hume Collection at Bartleby.com |
| | Hume’s greatest philosophic work, where he argues that causation does not really exist. | | | The mere philosopher is a character, which is commonly but little acceptable in the world, as being supposed to contribute nothing either to the advantage or pleasure of society. | | | Sections by Rev. William Hunt with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature. |
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| | David Hume: Selected Works |
| | But he also wrote a number of essays which had a significant influence on the evolution of constitutional government. | | | David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher noted for his skepticism. | | | Original date: 1997 September 3 — Updated: 2001 October 21 |
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http://www.constitution.org/dh/hume.htm
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| | David Hume Institute Home page |
| | The David Hume Institute is an independent charitable organisation and holds no political affiliation | | | Its work is primarily focused in areas linking economics and law, with a particular interest in the interaction between institutional or legal frameworks and market forces. | | | The offices of the David Hume Institute are based in the historic city of Edinburgh, a city with a rich academic and cultural heritage. |
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http://www.davidhumeinstitute.com
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| | David Hume Kennerly -- Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer |
| | David Hume Kennerly won a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam pictures, was personal photographer to President Gerald R. Ford, and has traveled to more than 140 countries on assignment. | | | David Hume Kennerly named one of American Photo's Top 100 | | | He is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, where he shoots wars, politics and the demise of popular sitcoms. |
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http://www.kennerly.com
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| | EpistemeLinks: Website results for philosopher David Hume |
| | Description: "The aim of the project is to provide a permanent resource for scholars and students wishing to have access, free of charge, to high quality texts of works by, and associated with, the great philosopher and historian David Hume, together with relevant bibliographic materials." |
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