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DAVID HUME
-David Hume, (born May 7
[April 26, Old Style],
1711, Edinburgh, Scotland—
died August 25, 1776,
Edinburgh), Scottish
philosopher, historian,
economist, and essayist known especially for his
philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

What did David Hume write?

David Hume’s philosophical works included A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), An
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding (1758), and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (posthumously
published in 1779).

Why is David Hume famous?

David Hume is famous for the elegance of his prose, for his radical empiricism, for
his skepticism of religion, for his critical account of causation, for his naturalistic theory
of mind, for his thesis that “reason is...the slave of the passions,” and for
waking Immanuel Kant from his “dogmatic slumber,” as Kant himself admitted.
Significance and influence of David Hume
That Hume was one of the major figures of his century can hardly be doubted. So his
contemporaries thought, and his achievement, as seen in historical perspective,
confirms that judgment, though with a shift of emphasis.

As a philosopher

Hume conceived of philosophy as the inductive science of human nature, and he

concluded that humans are creatures more of sensitive and practical sentiment than
of reason. For many philosophers and historians his importance lies in the fact
that Immanuel Kant conceived his critical philosophy in direct reaction to Hume (Kant
said that Hume had awakened him from his “dogmatic slumber”). Hume was one of the
influences that led Auguste Comte, the 19th-century French mathematician and
sociologist, to develop positivism.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-
Hume/Significance-and-influence

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