David Hume
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Hume and the Philosophy of Man and Morality
Peter gan: hume was a brilliant essayist in hishis day asand he wrote other books, of course. And how he's come into the twentieth century and interviewit people in in influence people like you? Well, i think part of the reason he's become so influential in the last hundred years has been to do with changes in the scientific world. People have come to real that the world is a much more peculiar place than they thought it was in newton's time. There was hume saying all along, actually, pure reason won't tell us what the world is like. We've got to experiment, and we might find out it's very different from our intuitive
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