Blog Posts on david hume

Great Scots, Some Infamous Ones, And The Boy Who Lived by Life's My Trip on Aug 16, 2011You meet a lot of interesting Scots just wandering around Edinburgh on your own. Though we did have much needed help identifying some thanks to my sister’s old classmate from high school, Patricia. She and her husband had been living in Edinburgh f...

The Ethics of Secularism by Filipino Freethinkers on Jul 23, 2011"Whether there be other good or not, the good of the present life is good, and it is good to seek that good...Individual good attained by methods conducive to the good of others, is the highest aim of man, whether regard be had to human welfare in th...

How David Hume’s Critique of the Design Argument Survives for Three Centuries (Part 2) by Filipino Freethinkers on Jul 16, 2010The famous biologist J.B.S. Haldane once replied to a reporter who queried what his research on genetics suggested about the deity. Haldane replied that “He must have an inordinate fondness for beetles,” referring to the numerous species of these...

How David Hume’s Critique of the Design Argument Survives for Three Centuries (Part 1) by Filipino Freethinkers on Jul 15, 2010

Reaction to David Hume's Impression and Idea by The Stranger on Oct 13, 2009According to Llano’s book, senses do not provide with safe and certain knowledge. Sense knowledge is relative to the subject who possesses it, since different subjects make different judgments about the sense knowledge of the same subject or the sa...

David Hume's Impression and Idea by The Stranger on Oct 6, 2009David Hume says that nothing seems more unbounded than human thought. Our human thought can go anywhere even in the farthest part of the universe and our imagination can conceive the most unnatural ideas such as mermaids, flying horses and others. Ev...