
David Hume
In Our Time: Philosophy
How Did Hume Come to Be?
James harris wll hume grew up in the border country between scotland and england. He went to university at edinburgh aged ten, which was young, but not that young. His family wanted him to be a lawyer, so they gave him the time to sit at home and study. In fact, he was reading roman poetry and history and modern literatures of all kinds. Am feeling that his intellectual journey, as it were, had yet to begin.
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