Foreign thinker
David Hume
David HumePhilosophyScottish1711–1776
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Life and Thought
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist, and one of the prominent figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is one of the most important representatives of empiricism in Western philosophy, and his critique of causality had a profound impact on the philosophy of science.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures13 titles
A Treatise of Human Nature
Moral, Political, and Literary Essays
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Inquiry into the Foundations of Ethics
Political Discourses
Four Treatises
The Natural History of Religion
History of England
My Life
Conversations on Natural Religion
On the Criterion of Taste
On Tragedy
On the Passions of the Soul
