Happy Birthday David Hume (b. 1711)

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Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on May 7, 2011 at 6:17pm

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 John D on May 7, 2011 at 6:32pm

Hume is one of my favorite-ist philosophers.  If you like Hume you should read "Dennitt's Darwins Dangerous Idea."

Happy birthday... I will have to run out and get some scotch to celebrate!

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Permalink Reply by Ken on May 7, 2011 at 7:11pm

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 May 14, 2011 at 1:45am

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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Permalink Reply by Ken on May 15, 2011 at 5:10pm

I have read some of Kant's philosophy and you are right it can be a little dense.

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