David Hume

	David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an “insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning”. Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he studied…

r-analogyHumes counter-analogy does not succeed in undermining Paleys argument from design. Paley clearly explains to his reader that humans are so complicated that we must have been made by a designer. Hume argues that since the universe is not a human art, and is more like an animal, it does not need a designer. Paley…

Socrates thought that the soul is too simple to destroy; he thought that we are indestructible. Modern science disagrees with Socrates; the idea of the body-and-soul became the idea of the body-and-brain, psychology is the new soul; modern science has sees a correlation between consciousness and the brain. There are three main fields that try…

            David Hume and John Locke are two prominent names in the realm of philosophy. These philosophers belong to the tradition of empiricism, where both of them have contributed immensely.  Though they are similar, Hume and Locke are also remarkably different.  Their ideas and concepts of empiricism are alike in certain respects but are generally…

David Hume and Rene Descartes are philosophers with opposing views aboutthe origination of ideas. Descartes believed there were three types of ideaswhich are, innate, adventitious and those from imagination. He stated since heexists and his idea of what a perfect being is, such as God, then God exists. Hume, on the other had, believed ideas…