Write a brief notes about These philosophers: 1-David Hume,2-Locke?

Question

I need some story abou these philosophers

Answer 1

DAVID HUME:
Hume Time Line
1711 April 26, is born at Edinburgh to a father who owned a small estate near Berwickshire named "Ninewells" and a mother, Katherine Falconer, who was from a family of lawyers.

1723 After an early education at home enters Edinburg University where he begins the study of law but three years later turns from the study of law to pursue an intense independent study of his own devising.

1734 After an attack of hypocondria he visits France where, over the next three years, he works on his Treatise of Human Nature.

1739 January, the first two volumes of Treatise are published anonymously.

1740 The third volume of Treatise published. Public reaction to his work is sparse, he declares: "It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinctions even to excite a murmur among the zealots." In response he publishes, once more anonymously, An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature.

1741 Publishes first volume of Essays which is largely successful.

1742 Publishes second edition and second volume of Essays.

1744 Fails to attain the chair of moral philosophy at Edinburgh. Becomes tutor to the marquis of Annandale.

1746 Appointed secretary to General St. Clair an travles on a military expedition to Brittany (1746) and a diplomatic mission to Turin (1748).

1748 Publishes Philosophical Essays concerning the Human Understanding a condensation of the Treatise. Essays retitled An Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding in the 1758 edition.

1751 Publishes An Enquiry concerning Principles of Morals, also a condensation of the Treatise. Publishes Political Discourses with much success. Fails once more to attain to a professors chair.

1752- Works as keeper of the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, where he 1757 writes History of Great Britain. History publised in five volumes between 1752 and 1764 and while first volume's sales were disappointing at first, within a few years sales made Hume quite rich.

1757 Publishes Four Dissertations: The Natural History of Religion, Of the Passions, Of Tragedy, Of the Standard of Taste.

1763- Appointed private secretary to Lord Hertford, British 1766 ambassador to Paris.

1767- Serves in London as undersecretary of state, Northern 1768 Department.

1769 Settles in Edinburgh and lives out his life as a man of letters and acknowledged patriarch of literature helping young writers critically as well as financially amoungst whom were Thomas Blackwell, Tobias Smollett and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

1776 Dies of cancer.

1779 Postumous publication of Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.

LOCKE:
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704) was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher, whose association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (later the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him to become successively a government official charged with collecting information about trade and colonies, economic writer, opposition political activist, and finally a revolutionary whose cause ultimately triumphed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Much of Locke's work is characterized by opposition to authoritarianism. This opposition is both on the level of the individual person and on the level of institutions such as government and church. For the individual, Locke wants each of us to use reason to search after truth rather than simply accept the opinion of authorities or be subject to superstition. He wants us to proportion assent to propositions to the evidence for them. On the level of institutions it becomes important to distinguish the legitimate from the illegitimate functions of institutions and to make the corresponding distinction for the uses of force by these institutions.

The positive side of Locke's anti-authoritarianism is that he believes that using reason to try to grasp the truth, and determining the legitimate functions of institutions will optimize human flourishing for the individual and society both in respect to its material and spiritual welfare. This in turn, amounts to following natural law and the fulfillment of the divine purpose for humanity.

Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to God, the self, natural kinds and artifacts, as well as a variety of different kinds of ideas. It thus tells us in some detail what one can legitimately claim to know and what one cannot. Locke also wrote a variety of important political, religious and educational works including the Two Treatises of Government, the Letters Concerning Toleration, The Reasonableness of Christianity and Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

1. I've never heard of him.

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