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Hume's coverage of the political upheavals of the 17th century relied in large part on the Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ( 1646-69 ).
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Hume's and political
Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.
Hume's and 17th
They reached Mr. Hume's station near Lake George on the 13th and then started their journey on the 17th.
Hume's and century
The History sold well and was influential for nearly a century when it was superseded by Goldsmith's history ( which itself was partly plagiarized from Hume's ).
Hume's examples ring true with many 21st century readers, and they appealed to some of Paley's 18th-century contemporaries as well.
Hume's arguments were only accepted gradually by the reading public, and his philosophical works sold poorly until agnostics like T H Huxley championed Hume's philosophy in the 19th century.
David Hume's statements on ethics foreshadowed those of 20th century emotivists.
In the early 19th century some Whig historians came to incorporate Hume's views, dominant for the previous fifty years.
The science of man ( or the science of human nature ) is a topic in David Hume's 18th century experimental philosophy A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ).
Hume's and large
On that day they came to a large river which Hovell called Hume's River " he being the first that saw it ".
Hume's achievement which made use of a large network of correspondents was recognized even during his time:
This is in large part due to the power of David Hume's problem of induction.
Hume's and part
Hume's last piece of ornithological writing was done in 1891 as part of an Introduction to the Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission an official publication on the contributions of Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka, who died during the return journey on this mission.
Hume then argues that if time cannot be derived from an unchanging object therefore it cannot be applied to such an object, the rest of this part is the answer to objections to Hume's views about space and time.
Hume's and on
For example, Hume's views on personal identity do not appear.
Hume's volume of Political Discourses ( published by Kincaid & Donaldson, 1752 ) was the only work he considered successful on first publication.
The question of what were Hume's personal views on religion is a difficult one.
Hume's views on human motivation and action formed the cornerstone of his ethical theory: he conceived moral or ethical sentiments to be intrinsically motivating, or the providers of reasons for action.
English deism, however, was already in decline before Hume's works on religion ( 1757, 1779 ) were published.
Furthermore, some writers maintain that Hume's writings on religion were not very influential at the time that they were published.
Hume's lasting legacy, however, was the doubt that his skeptical arguments cast on the legitimacy of inductive reasoning, allowing many skeptics who followed to cast similar doubt.
Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.
The Scottish Law Commission, in its Discussion Paper No 122 on Insanity and Diminished Responsibility ( 2003 ), pp. 16 / 18 confirms that the law has not substantially changed from the position stated in Hume's Commentaries:
He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.
In contrast, one might think, to his polemical works on religion and his empiricism-driven skeptical epistemology, Hume's views on law and property were quite conservative.
Based partly on Hume's History of England and the ballad cycle of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe was quickly translated into many languages and inspired countless imitations and theatrical adaptations.
Since Hume had already made many of the same " moral attacks upon Christianity " that Paine popularized in The Age of Reason, scholars have concluded that Paine probably read Hume's works on religion or had at least heard about them through the Joseph Johnson circle.
In 1767, against David Hume's advice, he published his Essay on the History of Civil Society, which was well received and translated into several European languages.
He defended John Milton against William Lauder's charge of plagiarism ( 1750 ), and attacked David Hume's rationalism in his Letter on the Criterion of Miracles ( 1754 ); he went on to criticise the followers of John Hutchinson in his Apology for the Clergy ( 1755 ).
* Londei, Tiziano ( 1998 ): Observations on Hume's Groundpecker Pseudopodoces humilis.
* William Warburton-Remarks upon Mr. David Hume's Essay on the Natural History of Religion.
He was David Hume's physician and friend, and on intimate terms with Adam Smith, Lord Kames ( with whom he discussed theoretical and practical aspects of husbandry ), Joseph Black, John Millar, and Adam Ferguson, among others.
They reached Hume's station on 13 October, and on 17 October began the expedition proper with five bullocks, three horses and two carts.
Hume's and History
In its implications for deism, the Natural History of Religion ( 1757 ) may be Hume's most interesting work.
In David Hume's History of England, he tells something of the powers that the kings had accumulated in the times after the Magna Carta, the prerogatives of the crown and the sources of great power with which these monarchs counted:
He wrote a defence of revealed religion in his View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy ( 1754 ), and Hume's Natural History of Religion called forth some Remarks ... " by a gentleman of Cambridge " from Warburton, in which his friend and biographer, Richard Hurd, had a share ( 1757 ).
* Histoire de la maison de Stuart ( 3 vols., 1740 ) from Hume's History of England to 1688
Whigs welcomed the first volumes of the History as a Whig answer to David Hume's " Tory " History of England.
Others survived the conquest, and are mentioned in Hume's History as champions of Magna Charta.
Along with a translation of Hume's History of England it supplied the philosophes with most of their ideas about the English constitution.
Hume's and England
:* Colin Hume's Advice to Americans in England
Hume's and ).
They have abandoned Basic Law V in favour of abstraction principles such as Hume's principle ( the number of objects falling under the concept F equals the number of objects falling under the concept G if and only if the extension of F and the extension of G can be put into one-to-one correspondence ).
Relevant is the fact that certainty is never absolute in practice ( and not just because of David Hume's problem of induction ).
Further camellias imported in the East Indiamen were associated with the patrons whose gardeners grew them: a double red for Sir Robert Preston in 1794 and the pale pink named " Lady Hume's Blush " for Amelia, the lady of Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire ( 1806 ).
In philosophy, Hume's fork may be used to refer to one of several distinctions and dilemmas drawn by David Hume ( though which distinction is a matter of some disagreement ).
Madame Blavatsky was a regular visitor at Hume's Rothney castle at Simla and an account of her visit may be found in Simla, Past and Present by Edward John Buck ( who succeeded Mr. Hume in charge of the Agricultural Department ).
Edmund Burke was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, namely Hume's skeptism and reliance on tradition and the passions, and while supporting the American Revolution based on the established rights of Englishmen, rejected the " natual rights " claims of the Enlightenment and vehemently rejected the Rationalism of the French Revolution ( see Reflections on the Revolution in France ).
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