John Passmore on Hume: Section 3

Hume The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert John Passmore of the National Australian University discusses causality as the cornerstone of Hume’s philosophy. Also discussed are three of Hume’s basic philosophical views:anything that is not a fact, is illusion; judgments on fact mist be based on concrete experience; and all knowledge is imperfect. Hume also denies the idea of a continuous identical self, refutes deism, and views reason as a slave to passion. Section 1: www.youtube.com Section 2: www.youtube.com Section 3: www.youtube.com Section 4: www.youtube.com Section 5: www.youtube.com
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Hume The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert John Passmore of the National Australian University discusses causality as the cornerstone of Hume’s philosophy. Also discussed are three of Hume’s basic philosophical views:anything that is not a fact, is illusion; judgments on fact mist be based on concrete experience; and all knowledge is imperfect. Hume also denies the idea of a continuous identical self, refutes deism, and views reason as a slave to passion. Section 1: www.youtube.com Section 2: www.youtube.com Section 3: www.youtube.com Section 4: www.youtube.com Section 5: www.youtube.com

16 thoughts on “John Passmore on Hume: Section 3

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  2. Por otra parte, si usted tiene un interés? en filosofía, usted grandemente benfeit de aprender inglés. No pienso que usted encontrará traducciones filosóficas a la idioma Español que comparan a ésos usted encontrará a la idioma Inglés.

  3. 🙂 que bueno que un compatriota este interesado? en hume tambien. Aunque ya deberias saber ingles 🙂

  4. 6:45 . ..human nature. Reminds me of ‘feral’ children who are isolated and display animalistic qualities in physical behaviour and underdeveloped human capacities, mainly language, but when? taken out of that situation and basically brought up into a society they become more ‘normal’ and less animal-like.

  5. Its funny that david hume may be a nice guy yet what was? up with all the historians back around his time saying mean things like,”fattest pig in the stye” or some ppl along the lines of saying his scottish accent made him look like a simpleton. some made fun of his french. poor david. i think dave has nice lips.

  6. I know the guy is an Australian, but how British it sounds? to imagine a dinner party with history’s great philosophers! Thanks for posting this interview though!

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