大衛·休謨（1711年－1776年） The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner/ The History of Great Britain/A Kind of History of My Life/休謨 MACNABB DGC

 大衛·休謨（1711年－1776年） The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner/ The History of Great Britain/A Kind of History of My Life/休謨  MACNABB DGC

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David Hume was a successful philosopher but also appreciated the importance of 'nature' for humanity. Our #ThoughtOfTheWeek comes from one of his many essays. Learn more: https://oxford.ly/46Ynegt

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"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."

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"David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist. Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events."

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Born: David Home, 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711, Edinburgh, Scotland

Died: August 25, 1776, Edinburgh, Scotland

Alma mater: University of Edinburgh

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David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.100, Hackett Publishing

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Philosopher David Hume was born David Home in Edinburgh, Scotland on this day in 1711.

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
--David Hume

The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy’s most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical–and fatal–conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke’s Essay, Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume’s Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures after a period of Berkeley’s optimistic idealism. THE EMPIRICISTS collects the key writings on this important philosophy, perfect for those interested in learning about this movement with just one book. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-empiricists-by-jo…/

Empirical philosopher David Hume died on August 25th 1776. His work on epistemology, cause and effect, the self and morality caused Schopenhauer to state that "there is more to be learned from each page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart and Schleiermacher taken together"

Born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1711: David Hume, philosopher and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment http://ow.ly/Myd1F

David Hume pointed out long ago in his essay "Of suicide" – if it's wrong to end a life because that is a way of playing God, then by the same reasoning it should also be wrong to take precautions to extend it in any way.

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David Hume: His Theory of Knowledge and Morality

Oxford: Basil Blackwell 2nd edn 1966** 208p 

休謨  麥克納著、黃懿梅譯，台北：長橋， 1979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume  休謨


 大衛·休謨（David Hume，1711年6月7日－1776年8月25日^[1]）是蘇格蘭的哲學家、經濟學家、和歷史學家，他被視為是蘇格蘭啟蒙運動以及西方哲學歷史中最重要的人物之一。雖然現代對於休謨的著作研究聚焦於其哲學思想上，他最先是以歷史學家的身分成名。他所著的《英格蘭史》一書^[2]*在當時成為英格蘭歷史學界的基礎著作長達60至70年^[3]。

 * 此書近年中國有翻譯:

• The History of England (原先的標題The History of Great Britain)—《大不列顛史》 (1754–62) 可以在自由圖書館閱讀全文[3]
• 比較像是一套叢書而不只是一本書。休謨討論的歷史範圍「包含了從凱薩大帝入侵到1688年的革命」，這套書後來再版了超過100個版本。許多人將其視為是英格蘭歷史學的標準著作，直到Thomas Macaulay的History of England一書出現為止。

The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner

 1954,  Thomas Nelson &  Sons 出版 /  1970,  OUP牛津大學出版社/2001  paperback 平裝

扉頁 引Hume  :Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy,
                                          be still a man

Description

Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy.

Features

• the standard biography of Hume
• unavailable for some time, now reissued in paperback
• detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements

Product Details

738 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-924336-5ISBN10: 0-19-924336-0

About the Author(s)

E.C. Mossner was formerly Professor of English at the University of Texas.

Table of Contents

1. Student of Humanity, 1711-1744

2. Observer of Human Nature, 1744-1749

3. Distinguished Man of Letters, 1749-1763

4. Citizen of the World, 1763-1769

5. 'Saint David of Scotland', 1769-1776

Appendices

Textual Supplement, Authorities Cited, General Bibliography, Index

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 18世紀的蘇格蘭哲學家大衛•休謨(David Hume)提出，國家是個人的集合。--- 這句話 很難在此書中找到.

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• A Kind of History of My Life (1734)

寫給一名匿名醫師的信，請求提供能夠治癒他身上「好學的疾病」的療法。信中休謨自承在他18歲時「似乎發現了一個新的思考領域…」並且使他下定決心「拋棄其他所有快樂和事業，完全奉獻在這個領域上。」

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