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139 See also: Plato 50–55 ■ Aristotle 56–63 ■ René Descartes 116–23 ■ John Locke 130–33 ■ Immanuel Kant 164–71 ■ Georg Hegel 178 ...
140 better represented by esse est aut perciperi aut percipi (“to be is to perceive or to be perceived”). For according to Berke ...
141 Can a tree fall over if there is nobody present to observe it? Objects only exist while they are perceived, according to Ber ...
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144 D uring the Renaissance, Europe had evolved into a collection of separate nation states, having previously been a continent ...
145 In the Romantic period, European literature, painting, and music became preoccupied with an idealized view of nature, in mar ...
146 DOUBT IS NOT A PLEASANT CONDITION, BUT CERTAINTY IS ABSURD VOLTAIRE (1694–1778) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Epistemology APPROACH Scep ...
147 See also: Aristotle 56–63 ■ John Locke 130–33 ■ David Hume 148–53 ■ John Stuart Mill 190–93 ■ Hans-Georg Gadamer 260–61 ■ Ka ...
CUSTOM IS THE GREAT GUIDE OF HUMAN LIFE DAVID HUME (1711–1776) ...
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150 D avid Hume was born at a time when European philosophy was dominated by a debate about the nature of knowledge. René Descar ...
151 This judgment cannot be empirical, because I cannot observe future risings of the sun. Mathematics and logic yield what Hume ...
152 probable statement, however, is not self-evident, for it is concerned with matters of empirical fact. For example, any state ...
153 Science supplies us with ever more detailed information about the world. However, according to Hume, science deals with theo ...
MAN WAS BORN FREE YET EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712–1778) ...
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156 R ousseau was very much a product of the mid- to late- 18th-century period known as the Enlightenment, and an embodiment of ...
157 nasty, brutish, and short.” In his view humanity is instinctively self- interested and self-serving, and that civilization i ...
158 once again Rousseau contradicted conventional thinking with his analysis. The selfish, savage, and unjust state of nature de ...
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