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Happy Birthday David Hume (b. 1711)
Scottish philosopher and general skeptic. Author of numerous books including: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and A Treatise of Human Nature.
I am not entirely sure he was what we would define today as an Atheist, but he asked some excellent questions and made some insightful observations.
If you get a chance, check out his argument against 'miracles' in:
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Tags: Hume, birthday, philospher, skeptic
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Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on -
Hume is my favorite philosopher (even more so than Aristotle, the man currently posing as me on A|N).
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Permalink Reply by Ken on -
I have Dennitt's book on my book shelf and have yet to get to it. I never seem to have enough time and a lot of books that I want to read.
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Permalink Reply by Jameer Logan on -
I really like Hume's approach to philosophy when discussing impressions and passions, but my favorite would be Kant although he is very hard to understand. I think very logically, which is why I was enamored by Kant's style of philosophy.
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