David Hume

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Enlightenment philosopher diplomat economist essayist historian human philosopher

David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential empiricism, skepticism, and naturalistic approach to human understanding.

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instanceOf	Enlightenment philosopher → diplomat → economist → essayist → historian → human → philosopher →
birthName	David Home →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain →
dateOfBirth	1711-05-07 →
dateOfDeath	1776-08-25 →
education	University of Edinburgh →
ethnicGroup	Scottish →
fieldOfWork	economics → history → philosophy →
influenced	Adam Smith → Charles Darwin → Immanuel Kant → Jeremy Bentham → John Stuart Mill → analytic philosophy → logical positivism →
influencedBy	George Berkeley → Isaac Newton → John Locke →
language	English →
mainInterest	aesthetics → epistemology → ethics → metaphysics → philosophy of mind → philosophy of religion → political philosophy →
movement	Empiricism → Naturalism → Scottish Enlightenment → Skepticism →
name	David Hume →
notableWork	A Treatise of Human Nature → An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding → An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals → Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion → Essays, Moral and Political → History of England → The Natural History of Religion →
philosophicalSchool	empiricism → naturalism → skepticism →
placeOfBirth	Edinburgh → Scotland →
placeOfDeath	Edinburgh →
positionHeld	Librarian of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh → Secretary to the British Embassy in Paris →
religiousView	religious skeptic →

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Book 2: Of the Passions → author → David Hume →

Book 3: Of Morals → author → David Hume →

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion → author → David Hume →

Essays, Moral and Political → author → David Hume →

History of England → author → David Hume →

Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature → author → David Hume →

Of the Liberty of the Press → author → David Hume →

Of the Love of Fame → author → David Hume →

Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy → author → David Hume →

Section V Sceptical Solution of these Doubts → author → David Hume →

Section VIII Of Liberty and Necessity → author → David Hume →

Section XI Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State → author → David Hume →

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A System of Logic → influencedBy → David Hume →

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Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind → influencedBy → David Hume →

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The Analysis of Sensations → influencedBy → David Hume →

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The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle → influencedBy → David Hume →

Thomas Malthus → influencedBy → David Hume →

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