Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
The Ralston College Podcast
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Is Hume an Empiricist?
Hume was an empiricist, in the sense of thinking that all understanding and knowledge comes from the senses. But he didn't see how things like language and what you might call more broadly conceptual aspects of our life shape the way we understand reality. He thought ordinary life wasn't something that called him to question his philosophical understanding because salvation came through carelessness and inattention. Soh t, the way he put it in one place, is that our only remedy is careless ness and inatt attention. hume's basic insight stands: a lot of the things that we think were compulsory are not given to us by reality but are made up or impose uponreality as a result of
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