David Hume's Life Flashcards
When did David Hume live?
1711-76
Where was he brought up?
Scotland
What was Hume’s Aim, what what did he come to conclude?
To apply the scientific discoveries of Newton to philosophy, and later on he concluded that cause and effect do not actually exist in nature.
Where did David Hume travel?
‘Widely Around Europe’
Hume was ill with what?
A stomach ache.
Why was he criticised?
Because of his challenging of Christian’s belief.
What did David Hume want?
To be admired as a writer.
When was A treatise of Human Nature published?
1739, when he was 28.
Hume’s family was?
His father was a?
Aristocratic
Lawyer
Was his mother wealthy
No
When did Hume’s father die?
1713
David Hume went at age 12 to a university in Edinburgh to study what?
Law
What did DH do in Bristol?
In 1734, DH went to Bristol to work as a banker.
In 1742, he wrote a second book, was this more popular?
Yes.
What was DH’s jobs?
Banker in Bristol
Tutor to the Marquess of Annandale
Secretary to General ST Clair
Secretary to Lord Hertford
Mixed with Les Philosophes.
In 1762, the last volume of what was published?
The History of England
(6 volumes)
What was DH appointed for?
Under secretary of state, 1767.
Why did DH return to Edinburgh at 58?
To revise philosophical publications.
Name 2 other highly influential books that DH wrote.
An enquiry concerning Human Nature
An Enquiry concerning the Principles and Morals.
Did he believe in Immortality?
No
Hume does not believe in God, but he believed that …?
…there is an underlying principle of the universe.
What did David Hume believe in?
That there no moral laws but they are just feelings that we share with each other and treat as if they are laws.
In Edinburgh, who did DH meet? What did they do?
Philosophers introducing a ‘new scene of thought.’ They were radical philosophers questioning religion and were looking for a scientific basis of knowledge, morals, economics and politics.
What did the church accuse DH of being?
An atheist + infidel. Therefore, the church successfully petitioned the authorities not to make him professor of Moral philosophy. Scotland also tried to excommunicate him.
