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David Hume

David Huge

>>14650831
You just know this guy would be on TikTok messaging underage girls if he were alive today. Just look at that face.

>>14650831
The little bits of onion I have cut up to make a broth are soft and some of them look like the fins that fish have

>>14650996
You just know he will fuck your daughter if he had the chance

Are we in for a Hume boom? A revival of appreciation in this great philosopher among the masses?

>>14651027
He is the only Mass that needs to be appreciated

On Sunday forenoon the 7 of July 1776, being too late for church, I went to see Mr David Hume, who was returned from London and Bath, just adying. I found him alone, in a reclining posture in his drawing-room. He was lean, ghastly, and quite of an earthy appearance. He was dressed in a suit of grey cloth with white metal buttons, and a kind of scratch wig. He was quite different from the plump figure which he used to present. He had before him Dr. Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric. He seemed to be placid and even cheerful. He said he was just approaching to his end.
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I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbelieving a future state even when he had death before his eyes. I was persuaded from what he now said, and from his manner of saying it, that he did persist. I asked him if it was not possible that there might be a future state. He answered it was possible that a piece of coal put upon the fire would not burn; and he added that it was a most unreasonable fancy that we should exist for ever.
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I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that he had not been, as Lucretius observes. 'Well,' said I, 'Mr Hume, I hope to triumph over you when I meet you in a future state; and remember you are not to pretend that you was joking with all this infidelity.' 'No, no,' said he. 'But I shall have been so long there before you come that it will be nothing new.' In this style of good humour and levity did I conduct the conversation. Perhaps it was wrong on so awful a subject. But as nobody was present, I thought it could have no bad effect. I however felt a degree of horror, mixed with a sort of wild, strange, hurrying recollection of my excellent mother's pious instructions, of Dr. Johnson's noble lessons, and of my religious sentiments and affections during the course of my life. I was like a man in sudden danger eagerly seeking his defensive arms; and I could not but be assailed by momentary doubts while I had actually before me a man of such strong abilities and extensive inquiry dying in the persuasion of being annihilated. But I maintained my faith.
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Mr. Lauder, his surgeon, came in for a little, and Mr. Mure, the Baron's son, for another small interval. He was, as far as I could judge, quite easy with both. He said he had no pain, but was wasting away. I left him with impressions which disturbed me for some time.

>>14650831
>For instance, among the accusations Hume found trickiest to deal with was Rousseau's claim that on the journey to England he heard Hume mutter in his sleep, "Je tiens JJ Rousseau" - I have JJ Rousseau. In the indictment, Rousseau played brilliantly with these "four terrifying words". "Not a night passes but I think I hear, I have you JJ Rousseau ring in my ears, as if he had just pronounced them. Yes, Mr Hume, you have me, I know, but only by those things that are external to me ... You have me by my reputation, and perhaps my security ... Yes, Mr. Hume, you have me by all the ties of this life, but you do not have me by my virtue or my courage."

>I did pay thousands (in todays money) to tutors so I would forget my Scottish accent how did you know. Yes, I did call the police when I heard the Scottish language being spoken how did you know?

>>14652100
I ship them with Hume as bottom.

>>14650831
>he thought Madame de Boufflers was onto him and not just being the standard French enlightenment salon thoot.

>>14652240
Hume was always bottom

David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was twice as sloshed as Schlegel.

>>14650831
No.

*makes another food analogy*

>>14650831
fat anglo fuck

>>14652759
His analogy about fucking a man's wife was based

>Care for a game of Billiards, Mr Hume?

>>14652306
Hegel was several hundred metres tall. Could Hume really out-consume such a giant?

The is-ought problem is unironically the most worthwhile thing ever produced by a philosopher and is a sufficient justification for forcing everyone to study some philosophy in high school. If I see someone make the naturalistic fallacy one more time I'll go on a rampage.

David Hume

>>14652879
Yes.

>>14651021
It's a painting, he probably looked like an average bloke with a wig. Also him pursuing underage sexual partners is really out of place, if he adhered even only slightly to his moral philosophy.
I don't want to pass as a Hume stan (I'm in the Kant-Gang), but he really was one of the most likeable philosophers I've read about. I wish I had friends like Hume

King of the skeptics and naturalists.

>>14652306
*ahem*
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya about the rising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed...

>>14650831
hume...easy on the carrot cake

>>14652970
From the fact you are wrong, we may derive that we oughtn't listen to you.

>>14654059
Not him, but where does that derivation come from? I see his (supposed) wrongness on one hand, your suggestion of not listening to him on the other. Yet I fail to see a logical a priori relation between them. There is only our personal feelings to appeal to. Could you tell me how this derivation works?

David Hume

>>14651027
A Hume boom that perfumes our gloom by costuming the tombs of the rheumish buffoons?

>>14650831
>the color blue
based

>>14650831
>I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure.
Yup, I think he based

>>14654815
But was he based enough to admit that by his own reasoning the Christian religion is no more epistemically privileged to other religions or non-religion since it ultimately originates in feeling rather than fact?

>>14650831

emuH divaD

>>14656138
Yes.

>only stuff I see is real

Hes famous for this? A rises

>>14650831

>>14656932
You can only know what you have experienced.