My study notes for final. Brief overview of Hume, Kant, and Mill.

6. Hume: all that we know come from our senses. If there is no experience of God, it does not exist. All our knowledge make of perceptions: a) impressions - immediate info that comes through senses (emotions, passions, inner feelings) a1) simple - what make you think (color, smell, taste); a2) complex - made up of simple impressions (snow) b) ideas - thinking about impressions, they are copies or fake images of impressions; b1) simple - …

…are dependent on the individuals' good faith, and freedom in an act of man not God. Sartre based his existentialism on human free will. As individuals are free, from the moment of conception, they define their essence throughout their existence. A person's nature is what he or she has done in the past and what that person is doing at the moment. There is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it.