/lit/ - Literature

>>23135013
Because you cannot get an ought from an is. The problem of Induction is that we cannot make causal inference by purely apriori means.
The facts do not come with their own prescription and paradigm. Remember how facts don't care about your feelings? This causes a problem for objectivist ethics. Hume embraced that the origin of ethical sentiments are just that: handwaving presence.
However this primal primitive reduction leaves us in a barbarous wilderness of anarchy and failure of developing any sort of moral expectations let alone civil and healthy moral expectations.
Atheists are animals and cannot paper over this fact to find themselves in dreamland make believe make come true. Thus there begins the necessity of a sovereign idealism to define the ideas of law as intransigent and binding irrespective of persons and circumstances.

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>>21916882
>it is not accurate to make a broad generalization about the dominance of a particular philosophical ontology in academia based on the scientific revolution
Yes it is
You pluck out democritus, who btw, like all academics, had a rigorously geometric conception of what an "atom" constitutes. The more spherical the more fiery its elemental composition etc.
Atom just means "indivisible" anyway, so was a kind of theoretical monism, not any "science" or deduction in the way common to modernity. Epicurus as an atomist inherited this same classical perspective.
Kant actually was greatly inspired by hume, but only critiqued him in that he did not have a "transcendental" consciousness underlying phenomena.
>Moreover, the relationship between idealism and materialism is complex
Only to idealists clinging to poetics.
Vulgar materialism is certainly a plague, but the content of reality is matter.

ITT: we post writers and say whether they would frequent 4chan or Reddit.

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David Hume already showed these "truth seekers" are charlatans. Then Nietzche gave us the solution hoe to love our life for ourselves.
Before converting to Orthodox Christianity, Dyer seriously considered becoming an Orthodox Jew. If you're still a serious Christian in 2021, you're a discount Jew.

What are /lit/'s honest thoughts on David Hume?