Wednesday, May 28, 2008

David Hume


(Scottish neo-skeptical philosopher and historian, 1711–1776). Hume's complex and influential body of work situates him as one of the most important philosophers of the modern age, and a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment. Hume refuted the Seventeenth Century School of rationalistic metaphysics, whose thinkers included Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza, rejecting their Euclidian deductive method of reasoning. Instead, he followed in the footsteps of the British Empiricist School, whose pronounced scepticism he greatly admired, to produce an innovative philosophy.

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