• Hume's Treatise of Human Nature

  • Jan 13 2025
  • Length: 25 mins
  • Podcast

Hume's Treatise of Human Nature

  • Summary

  • Kick off the new season Rationalism vs. Empiricism with the empiricist David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature explores the nature of human understanding and the passions. Sections cover topics like inference, belief, probability, causality, and the will. The text further investigates the nature of identity, reason in animals, and the origins of morality, ultimately proposing a system based on experience, custom, and the imagination.

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