Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

681 David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1711. His father, a lawyer, died before David was 2 years old. He was raised ...

THEPROBLEMS OFPHILOSOPHY 1091 no match for Philonous, who mercilessly drives him into contradictions and paradoxes, and makes hi ...

682 DAVIDHUME argument from design, which he had left out of the earlier work, and he omitted many of his psychological speculat ...

1092 BERTRANDRUSSELL our sense-data, and yet to be regarded as causing those sense-data whenever we are in a suitable relation t ...

INTRODUTION 683 the food, hearing the bell, getting the food, hearing the bell...and after a period of time concluding, “bells c ...

THEPROBLEMS OFPHILOSOPHY 1093 But further, if we are not to fail in our endeavour to determine the value of philos- ophy, we mus ...

684 DAVIDHUME Understanding:A Reader’s Guide(London: Continuum, 2006) for epistemology and philosophy of mind; Jonathan Harrison ...

1094 BERTRANDRUSSELL be unwise to pronounce dogmatically; but if the investigations of our previous chapters have not led us ast ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONI) 685 bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that the ...

THEPROBLEMS OFPHILOSOPHY 1095 greatness of its goods. In contemplation, on the contrary, we start from the not-Self, and through ...

686 DAVIDHUME genius in an age and nation where the sciences flourish, than to be entirely destitute of all relish for those nob ...

1096 Martin Heidegger was born and died in the small German town of Messkirch in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg. H ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONI) 687 graceful and engaging airs; he must still carry his attention to the inward ...

INTRODUCTION 1097 concept of freedom [for] the German student is now brought back to its truth. From this truth the bond and ser ...

688 DAVIDHUME new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. And though these researches may appear painful ...

1098 MARTINHEIDEGGER of philosophers were directly influenced by Hitler’s rise to power in 1934. Husserl died as an outcast beca ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONI) 689 be apprehended in an instant, by a superior penetration, derived from nature ...

INTRODUCTION 1099 question of Being in stark terms: “Why is there anything at all, rather than noth- ing?” This might seem an od ...

690 DAVIDHUME the vast multitude and diversity of those actions that excite our approbation or dislike, to search for some commo ...

1100 MARTINHEIDEGGER Heidegger: A (Very) Critical Introduction(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008). For a guide to our reading, se ...