PHIL 1 Lecture 23: Phil 1 Notes 23
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Hume is a philosopher who wants to stick to common sense: To that which everyone implicitly assumes when they move around the world. The that which is given in experience, in perception. He recommends that philosophy be purposefully complicated, obscure, and weird, as is life. This leads him to be skeptical of any appeals to what is not given in experience. None of these objects are perceptible, so none of these ideas can be traced back to sense impressions. What about the freedom of the will. Freedom, according to hume, is being able to act against what you want. Freedom as being able to act against all of our inclinations. The idea that, no matter what i actually chose to do, i had the option to choose differently. This idea conflicts with determinism, in which everything that happens is caused. Our actions would be miracles, since they were not done by our inclinations.