David Hume
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David Hume (1711 - 1776)

David Hume
Born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotlandmap
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David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist" (Wikipedia excerpt).

"The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events; and what ideas will naturally be entertained of invisible, unknown powers, while men lie under dismal apprehensions of any kind, may easily be conceived. Every image of vengeance, severity, cruelty, and malice must occur, and must augment the ghastliness and horror which oppresses the amazed religionist. ... And no idea of perverse wickedness can be framed, which those terrified devotees do not readily, without scruple, apply to their deity."

— David Hume, The Natural History of Religion, section XIII

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  •  David Hume, The Natural History of Religion, section XIII
  • Wikipedia.org article on David Hume [1]
  • Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modern, Third edition. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007): 215.

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