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afleitch
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« on: November 13, 2019, 06:57:30 AM »

David Hume is probably my favourite philosopher too (though I'm always wary of idolising philosophers particularly as he was a stock 18th C racist.) so I'm interested in why you like him or what he proposed.

His grave and statue are in Edinburgh and what I love is that his grecian style statue is low to the ground and people rub his toe for 'good luck'. I think he'd wryly like that.
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2019, 02:18:57 PM »
« Edited: November 13, 2019, 02:42:58 PM by afleitch »

I like Hume because he presents such a robust challenge to so many aspects of my worldview--my religiosity, my tendency to take the phenomenal world at face value, my quasi-animist emotive attitude about the natural world, etc. I don't agree with most of his conclusions, otherwise I'd be, well, closer philosophically and religiously to you guys, but sometimes exposure to one of the strongest cases against one's worldview can be clarifying, challenging, and even kind of fun.

It's always healthy. And Hume (a bit like Adam Smith) is more nuanced than the '101' that people read/assume.

But be warned (not really. It's just me...); Hume and His Dark Materials (which-i-thoroughly-reccomend-watching-because-ruth-wilson-is-amazing) did more than anything to gut my Catholic apologism.
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2019, 12:42:26 PM »

What's one big thing you've gotten wrong and one thing you think you've gotten right?
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