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David Hume 1711-1776 (Historia De La Filosofia) (Alibris)$16.32
The History of England, Volume I, Part II: From Henry III to Richard III (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by Hume, David (Abunga.com)$28.66
David Hume : great Western political thinker (1711-1776) (Alibris)$41.26
The History of England, Volume I, Part VI: From Charles II to James II (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by Hume, David (Abunga.com)$21.15
The History of England, Volume I, Part I: From Early Times to King John (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by Hume, David (Abunga.com)$26.61
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British philosopher and historian who argued that human knowledge arises only from sense experience. His works include "A Treatise of Human Nature" (1739-1740) and "Political Discourses" (1752). Quote: "The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators." (Add picture)

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ILikePie (55)
02/24/2008
Loud and petulant skepticism isn't clever. At least he inspired Kant, and that is clever.

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rockerrreds (7)
11/08/2006
A must-read.

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DrEntropy (40)
03/11/2006
David Hume wrote perceptively on a wide range of topics: logic, ethics, epistemology, psychology, aesthetics, politics, history and economics. His work is mostly in the form of essays, not multiple-volume tomes; but Hume could say more of substance in a 10-page essay than most philosophers could in 1000-page book. Following Hume's death, many 'philosophical' topics became specialized fields of study; and philosophy's scope (now confined primarily to logic, epistemology and metaphysics) shrank rapidly from the catch-all discipline of the 17th and 18th Century. With a handful of exceptions, philosphy, post-Hume, has been characterized by the arid mysticism and scholastic hairsplitting of the Middle Ages; he was the last of the giants.

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thf1977 (0)
10/23/2004
One of the greatest and most relevant philosophers even to this day. His scepticism is necessary and useful, and his claim that you can't logically draw a normative conclusion from empirical observations is far too often forgotten in moral and political debates. Also his discussion of the nature of moral as some sort of feeling or emotion also strikes me as excellent, and is far better than all sorts of metaphysical explanations.

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