SCMA*1090 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Locke, Contiguity
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D5: hume (1711-1776) february 25, 2016 review of notes in class and fix notes in h and l + read textbook o o o o. Suspicious of theory, anti theoretical in his work; he is a skeptic like locke who is a fellow empiricist who wrote essay on human understanding also enquiring about moral theory + dialogues about religion (he didn"t believe in god) First greatest contribution is treatise of human nature (1739) 600 work of plsp ppl didn"t know who he was so they didn"t care about it. Enquiring concerning human understanding: called analysis + synthesis, warns that we should frame no hypothesis, don"t accept unless derives from experience, must be derived from observed phenomena, can"t let hunches interfere with the theory. Around this time, used human knowledge to solve our problems. Achievements from enlightment age from science itself mainly newton (1642-1727), he influenced because he made hume want to understand human nature.
