What was Hume view of humans?
and the qualities all humans share??
Can't find these 2 in my notes....thanks.
2007-04-09 08:27:51 · 5 answers · asked by Yep 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is not an easy question to answer succinctly, one would have to provide you with an essay. Perhaps the only insight that I can offer you comes from my memory of Hume's "Treatise of Human Nature" in which it seems that through his theory of epistomology,Hume was attempting to place our capacity for knowledge, rather than the external world, as the center of his understanding of human nature. He conceived of human knowing as based upon the associations of ideas in our mind. It is our mind that establishes relationships concerning ideas. He is not denying that a world exists external to the mind, but that he gives priority to the inner workings of the human mind and how our minds establish relationships concerning our ideas about the external world. It is the manner in which we process or establish relationships concerning ideas that is a common quality that all humans share. This manner in which our ideas are processed and ordered are resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect. This sounds facile, and I don't think it really gets at your question, but maybe it gives you something to consider for your research.
2007-04-09 09:09:42 · answer #1 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will Durant wrote a marvelous book almost 90 years ago now that has been a gateway to serious philosophy for many ever since. Even though it obviously has become dated, the chapter on Kant may include exactly what you want. Go to the link below, the GoogleBooks version of Durant's THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY. The relevant portion for your concerns begins at the bottom of p. 280, where Durant briefly discusses David Hume as part of his intro to the thought of Kant. Continue reading through 282. Just two pages, then, and you may well be on your way through the gateway. Some navigation help. If you click on that link you'll get to the cover of the book. Scroll down a bit to the Table of Contents, then click on the link at chapter VI, section I, subsection 2. Good luck.
2016-05-21 00:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by freeda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God forbid you should actually look in Hume's own writings for the answer, eh?
2007-04-09 08:37:29 · answer #3 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i thi nk he was the 1 that proposed that if no one see's it, it doesn't exist, so when u leave your house all the rooms/appliances etc. don't exist, it's only when u see it does it exist. thats where the whole, if the tree falls and no one hears it does it make a sound.
2007-04-09 08:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by StealthShadow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following link may be helpful:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
2007-04-09 08:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by night_train_to_memphis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋