And, how many of you are empiricists because of it?
2007-03-12 09:59:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And for those who want to, read it here:
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/ToC/hume%20treatise%20ToC.htm
everybody should read Hume. and really, the whole lot of them. Locke, Butler, Smith, they were all of great influence on each other.
2007-03-12 10:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had actually read it in grad school and before seminary. How influential it was on my eventually becoming an empiricist is hard for me to know. I think I've always been one, just that I had always walled my faith off from the standards I applied to other faiths as a matter of course.
I think back on a letter I once wrote mocking the beliefs of a New Age lecturer, and how many other Christians at the college (including faculty and staff) called me and wrote me to congratulate me on mocking the ridiculously superstitious notions of the New Ager. Which in retrospect were not the least more ridiculous than Christianity's virgin mothers, dead rising etc.
Hume certainly had an effect on the way I approached my studies and research and my eventual realization of just how weak the case for Christianity was.
2007-03-12 10:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
His aspect: Utilitarianism may be the muse of a sovereign. EDIT : hey Cybrwurm - per chance you should basically study Treatise ( particularly section 2) . Hume's artwork is ought to-study fabric for those in constitutional regulation. It ----IS----- the finest communicate of Utilitarianism instead to social settlement.
2016-12-01 21:43:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not read Hume, but know of Empiricism. I do not know a great deal behind it, but know the basic premise. I would have to do more research before really answering the last part of the question.
2007-03-12 10:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes -- Hume's main project is to construct a theory of human nature and, in particular, a theory of the mind.
I can read, what now?
2007-03-12 10:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by Kedar 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I read it while getting my undergrad degree in philosophy. But it was in my junior year and I would say that I was already an empiricist.
2007-03-12 10:03:04 · answer #6 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i have read it and to be honest i prefer Rosseau, hume is to british upperclass in his words for me. you want to read something that turns you against the church read Rosseau.
2007-03-12 10:12:47 · answer #7 · answered by BUST TO UTOPIA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, unless it is a best-seller then I'm a nerd
2007-03-12 10:03:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.Never heard of it.
Maybe it's because I can't read
2007-03-12 10:02:37 · answer #9 · answered by rosbif 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheist can't read...remember.
2007-03-12 10:02:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋