David Hume

David Hume was one of the greatest thinkers in Western History. He was an 18th century philosopher who looked at the world in logical terms. He was a realist who, through philosophy, sought to distinguish between the impression of human experience and the ideas, which are changing representations of life experiences. He was also the ultimate sceptic, who did not accept that which presented itself as knowledge until it was proven to be so. Hume …

…and wealth of all nations. David Hume’s ideas had great effects on today’s society in many ways. He was a great economist, a historian, a sociologist and a philosopher. Hume is both epistemological and metaphysical subjectivist and a moral and ethical relativist. His theories make both philosophical knowledge and scientific knowledge impossible. His philosophy has a very modern sound: a collection of impressions collected nowhere; contents of mind which is not a container.