This may be the area of Hume's thought where his scepticism about human powers of reason is most pronounced.

Though a metaphor, it has been argued that this intuitive way of understanding Hume's theory that desires are necessary for motivation " captures something quite deep in our thought about their nature ".

* Hume's skepticism about miracles makes him a natural ally of deism.

Subject as a key-term in thinking about human consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to David Hume's radical skepticism.

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.

Hume's ideas about human nature expressed in the Treatise suggest that he would be happy with neither Hobbes's nor his contemporary Rousseau's thought-experiments.

Kant's work was stimulated by his decision to take seriously Hume's skeptical conclusions about such basic principles as cause and effect, which had implications for Kant's grounding in rationalism.

Starting in about 1741, Smith set on the task of using Hume's experimental method ( appealing to human experience ) to replace the specific moral sense with a pluralistic approach to morality based on a multitude of psychological motives.

Along with a translation of Hume's History of England it supplied the philosophes with most of their ideas about the English constitution.

Six chapters are about David Hume's views on religion, and approximately half of the work deals with Bolingbroke.

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.

The impact of sympathy on human behaviour is compatible with Enlightenment views, including David Hume's stances that the idea of a self with unique identity is illusory, and that morality ultimately comes down to sympathy and fellow feeling for others, or the exercise of approval underlying moral judgments.

It follows that, in Hume's moral philosophy, there is no room for eternal and immutable standards in morality.

It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739 – 40.

Ignored by many in " critical realist " circles, however, is that Kant's immediate impetus for writing his " Critique of Pure Reason " was to address problems raised by David Hume's skeptical empiricism which, in attacking metaphysics, employed reason and logic to argue against the knowability of the world and common notions of causation.

Hume's volume of Political Discourses ( published by Kincaid & Donaldson, 1752 ) was the only work he considered successful on first publication.

Hume's indeed was considered a Tory history, and emphasized religious differences more than constitutional issues.

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 ).

English deism, however, was already in decline before Hume's works on religion ( 1757, 1779 ) were published.

Hume himself was uncomfortable with the terms deist and atheist, and Hume scholar Paul Russell has argued that the best and safest term for Hume's views is irreligion.

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.

The idealists ' starting point was Hume's conclusion that there is nothing to the self over and above a big, fleeting bundle of perceptions.

But to conflate Kant's and Hegel's versions of idealism is to seriously miss the point of Kant ’ s radical doubt, which was stimulated in turn by David Hume's.

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.

This refuted David Hume's suggestion that it was a church in the Strand.

Township government was organized in 1860, with the election being held at Hume's store and with Hume being elected the first supervisor.

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.

However, Weintraub claims in The Philosophical Quarterly that although Sextus ' approach to the problem appears different, Hume's approach was actually an application of another argument raised by Sextus:

Hume was able to communicate with some aborigines they met early in their journey who consented to act as guides, and later, when the aborigines left them, Sturt speaks with appreciation of Hume's ability in tracking their animals which had strayed.

Hume's work was included in the 1995 exhibition Brilliant !, a showcase of work by YBA artists.

These works were not published until after his death, but Green's views were previously known indirectly through the Introduction to the standard edition of Hume's works by Green and T. H. Grose, fellow of Queen's College, in which the doctrine of the " English " or " empirical " philosophy was exhaustively examined.

It was formerly thought to belong to the family Corvidae which includes the crows and jays and was called as the Hume's Ground Jay or Tibetan Ground Jay.

Leslie, a follower of David Hume, was attacked by the clerical party as a sceptic and an infidel, and Brown took the opportunity to defend Hume's doctrine of causality as in no way inimical to religion.

It was formerly considered to comprise three subspecies, but P. i. humei and P. i. mandellii are now split as a separate species, Hume's Leaf Warbler P. humei, leaving P. inornatus monotypic.

The brunt of this chapter allegedly narrates the opinions, not of Hume, but of one of Hume's anonymous friends, who again presents them in an imagined speech by the philosopher Epicurus.

Paul Russell suggests that perhaps Hume's position is best characterised by the term " irreligion ".

Another interpretation of Hume's view of the self has been argued for by James Giles.

Hume's anti-rationalism has been very influential, and defended in contemporary philosophy of action by neo-Humeans such as Michael Smith and Simon Blackburn.

Modern sociology largely originated from this movement and Hume's philosophical concepts that directly influenced James Madison ( and thus the U. S. Constitution ) and when popularised by Dugald Stewart, would be the basis of classical liberalism.

Wesley C. Salmon developed Hume's insights, arguing that all things in the universe which exhibit order are, to our knowledge, created by material, imperfect, finite beings or forces.

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.

Hume's problem of induction starts by suggesting that the use of even the simplest forms of induction simply cannot be justified by inductive reasoning itself.

The connection is now standard, but it must be remembered ( as in the following ) that what is meant is a connection between Hume's philosophy and what is nowadays called " induction ," not what went by that name in Hume's day.

* Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism ( 1973 ) by David Stove

Hovell published two pamphlets Reply to " A Brief Statement of Facts in Connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824 ", and an Answer to the Preface to the Second Edition of Mr Hamilton Hume's " A Brief Statement of Facts ", ( for a balanced discussion of the merits of the case see paper by professor Sir Ernest Scott in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.

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 ).