4 of 4 Philosophers (Hume)

Hume

• Nothing is actually invented by the mind; mind puts things together and constructs false ideas
• Descartes believes in distinct idea of God while Hume refutes this by calling it a 'complex idea'
• Ideas are regularly connected
• Empiricism: knowledge comes from our senses
• Skepticism: doubt and ambiguity
• Humans only have knowledge of what they directly experience
• Content of the mind is whole product of experience
• Miracles are not true because there is no tangible proof they are possible or exist
• Reason is a process in human condition, but is secondary to emotions and senses
• Epistemology
• Questioned common notions of personal identity
• Argued that there is no permanent self that continues over time
• Person is a collection of properties and nothing more; bundle theory
• Theory of passions
• Passions fall under the category of impressions of reflection as opposed to impressions of sensation