You probably reached for your phone within ten minutes of waking up this morning. Maybe within ten seconds. You did not check it because something urgent happened overnight. You checked it because not checking it felt wrong, the way forgetting to bring your wallet used to feel wrong, or leaving the house without shoes. The […]
You probably believe you are a good person because you have thought carefully about right and wrong. You have weighed your options. You have reasoned through dilemmas. You have arrived at conclusions about justice, fairness, and decency through the disciplined application of your rational mind. David Hume would like a word. The Scottish philosopher, writing
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You wake up tomorrow and gravity stops working. Your coffee floats away. Your car drifts into the sky. The sun decides not to rise. Ridiculous, right? But here’s the uncomfortable question: why are you so sure it won’t happen? Because it never has? Because the laws of physics are reliable? David Hume, the 18th century
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When David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739, he expected to revolutionize philosophy. Instead, the book, as he later lamented, “fell dead-born from the press.” Yet this initial failure masked what would become one of the most profound intellectual earthquakes in Western thought. Nearly three centuries later, Hume’s ideas continue to reverberate
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