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August 25, 1776 (65 years old)
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David Hume
David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist. Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events.
BornDavid Home, 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711, Edinburgh, Scotland
DiedAugust 25, 1776, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh

About David Hume

Philosopher David Hume was born in Scotland on May 7, 1711. He dies at the age of 65, on August 25, 1776.

This Scottish Enlightenment philosopher is most known for his contributions to Western philosophy, which include A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), The History of England (1754-1762), Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741), and a number of other notable philosophical and historical works.

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David Hume before becoming famous

David Hume was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1711 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rabbit (兔).

He began studying at the University of Edinburgh at the age of twelve, and at the age of twenty-three, he published his first work, a letter titled"A Kind of History of My Life".

Achievement of David Hume

His writings on religion, metaphysics, ethics, economics, politics, aesthetics, and epistemology are commonly classified as skeptical, empirical, naturalistic, and utilitarian in terms of philosophical genre.

David Hume's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His parents, Joseph Home and Katherine Falconer Home, raised him and his older brother in Edinburgh, Scotland. In order to match the pronunciation of his surname, Home, in his native Scotland, he began spelling it Hume in 1734.

David Hume Collabed with

In terms of economic and political perspectives, Hume's writings influenced Economist Adam Smith, a fellow Scottish Enlightenment philosopher.

Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) (Economist)
Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)

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David Hume Income & Net worth

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