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Episode #053 ... David Hume pt. 3 - Custom

Philosophize This!

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Is There a Soul?

David hume was sceptical about the notion of us having a soul at all. Hume spends most of his time in his work attacking the qualities that he thinks people are tacking on lazily after the fact. He said, matter, therefore and spirit are, at bottom, equally unknown,. And we cannot determine what qualities inhere in one or the other. We can't even answer questions about what these things are, let alone be making grandiose assumptions about what attributes they must have. It's just like all other arguments from david hume, not denouncing the idea of a god existing at all, but pointing out all the unfounded assumptions we're making about that god once we've

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