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17 Jan 17
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Hume caused a stir by advocating a system of morality based on utility, or usefulness, instead of God’s authority
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Hume was a controversial figure in England, but Enlightenment Paris received him warmly
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Hume argued that all knowledge results from our experiences and is not received from God or innate to our minds. This kind of empiricism led to today’s “scientific method,” which holds that knowledge should be based on observations rather than intuition or faith
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The French Enlightenment had already spread throughout continental Europe and was beginning to influence Scottish academics, including Hume. Although they shared the French spirit, the Scottish philosophers practiced extreme skepticism and identified more strongly with utilitarianism, which posits that actions should be measured by their effect on the greater good of the world, not their consequences for the individual.
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12 Apr 16
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all knowledge results from our experiences and is not received from God or innate to our minds.
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He was the leader of the Scottish Enlightenment, a movement that took place in the fifty years between 1740 and 1790.
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31 Mar 15
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all knowledge results from our experiences and is not received from God or innate to our minds
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knowledge should be based on observations rather than intuition or faith
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Hume removed God
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30 Apr 06
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Hume is widely regarded as the third and most radical of the British empiricists, after John Locke and George Berkeley. Like Locke and Berkeley, Hume argued that all knowledge results from our experiences and is not received from God or innate to our minds. This kind of empiricism led to today’s “scientific method,” which holds that knowledge should be based on observations rather than intuition or faith. Radical empiricism went further, arguing that our knowledge is nothing more than the sum of our experiences. Unlike Locke and Berkeley, Hume removed God from the equation completely and argued forcefully against the possibility of his existence as his contemporaries envisioned it.
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the Scottish philosophers practiced extreme skepticism and identified more strongly with utilitarianism, which posits that actions should be measured by their effect on the greater good of the world, not their consequences for the individual.
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Despite Hume’s nay-saying contemporaries, his theories of the “evolution” of ethics, institutions, and social conventions proved highly influential for later philosophers. Attention to his works grew after the great philosopher Immanuel Kant credited Hume with awakening him from “dogmatic slumber.”
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Hume caused a stir by advocating a system of morality based on utility, or usefulness, instead of God’s authority. His newfound success encouraged him to seek a department chair position at the University of Edinburgh, but the town council rejected him because of his antireligious philosophy.
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