
David Hume
In Our Time: Philosophy
Hume's the Idea of Free Will
Heme wanted to say that all our ideas are like that, because all our ideas come from experience. For him, the imagination is inevitably te the main faculty in the mind and that presents our ideas to us. So he wants to analyze a very large amount of our thinking in terms of the imagination. How does this relate to the notion of free willad id like to unjames this after you've talked about it, hasha? The first point to make is that when hume says, or seems to make reason subordinate to the passions, that's not actually as radical a thesis as it might seem. He's simply saying that reason, that is, cognition, tells us what
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