David Hume Research Paper

Not being a famous philosopher as an Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith, David Hume was well known as a Historian despite of that he had many marvelous contribution to philosophy aspects. David Hume was born on April 26, 1711, in the area of Ninewells near Edinburgh, Scotland. He lived in the old middle-class family with two others siblings. His father, lawyer Joseph Home died when he got two. His mother, Katherine devoted the rest of her life to foster them. Hume was educated at home in the Presbyterian parish of Chirnside, near Berwick and he left home to study at University of Edinburgh when he was age twelve (Raynor, 2003). Hume spent three years at school without taking a degree, and dedicated himself to learn and elaborated about human nature

He doubted that an assumption of two conjunction phenomenon was a cause and effect was illogical, it was not certain. He said that we supposed it into causality due to lacking of knowledge or baseless reason. This habit rooted in our belief and persisted seems to causation. To illustrate his rationale, he noted that God was not the first cause of any effect generated by God’s domination. He also asserted that causation is exist, even though we do not know what the first cause is or where God’s place is (Sparknotes.com, 2005). According to David Braybrooke, if AIDS is God’s punishment due to perpetrate the sexual activity, the people could be actively avoided it by learning and practicing sexual safety. In addition, Hume denied God’s role as the source of morality. Instead of that, he believed moral principle was result of one’s passion. He concluded that the reason which God gave us to explore and comprehend the world just playing as an advisor rather than motivate others to act. It can be true that Hume’s skeptic attitude was received numerous criticism even that he was the first marker insisting with independence from religion belief (Gale, 1998). Those ideal therefor became the most basic concept for others philosophers developing other doctrines such as a force and action theory, or Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories by Kants Gesammelte Schriften. In like a

He assumed that all knowledge was derived from our experiences and not belonged to our natural capacity (Sparknotes.com, 2005). The rationalism can only link ideas while empiricism based on the facts to test ideas. The hypothesis were given grounded on logic, it may or may not be true. By empiricism, any idea could be tested, uncovered and proved in fact. Without the empiricism, it was hard to be determined any conceptions were true or false. This reasoning thereafter was put forth and reinforced by James Beattie, Thomas Reid, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill (Sparknotes.com, 2005) that nowadays known as a popular “scientific method” called an empirical method. Under this manner, all comprehension have gained from nothing but based on our observations, experimentalism rather than one’s sense or