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15925221 No.15925221 [Reply] [Original]

> Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.

>Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. And when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”

Was David Hume based or cringe? Seems like a total normalfag to me. "Dude just forget about existential problems by socialising with your friends lmao"

>> No.15925314

Sounds based to me.

Do you have an alternative hypothesis?

>> No.15925334

Sometimes philosophers just ask questions without knowing any answers to the questions they ask

Hume was a very jolly man apparently, he seems to have been troubled by the atheistic and sceptical consequences of his ideas but he wasn't dishonest enough not to tell the truth about what he had seen in his enquiries

>> No.15925381

Being an angsty social misfit is not a badge of honour.

>> No.15925421

Honestly, I think Hume just solved my existential dread. Thanks OP!

>> No.15925470

>>15925221
total chad

>> No.15927069

>>15925221
Sounds like a cope.

>> No.15927080

before you read look at his personality.
His best friend was Adam Smith.
He paid Smith a fortune to teach him an English accent but it never worked, this is what most of Smith's income was from.
He at one point called the police on someone that he heard speaking broad scots.

>> No.15927092

also. david hume considered black people subhuman and I think though am not sure here he considered gaelic people also subhuman.

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>>15925221
utterly based
>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.

>> No.15928045

>>15925221
He is talking about skepticism, not "existential problems". His point is that although radical skepticism cannot be refuted via philosophical argument, there is no reason to despair over that fact, since nature has made us in a way that it is psychologically impossible to not trust in eg. the reliability of our senses to our day to day life.

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>>15925314
>dont see your friends if you happen to be a proffesional ponderer/man of pondering

there is nothing more to philosophy than incel street cred you moron, nothing