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Excerpt from David Hume and His Influence on Philosophy and Theology
The edition of the History to which references are made is (unless otherwise specified) the final edition, embracing the author's last corrections and improve ments. The edition is in eight volumes, and the special issue used is that of 1796.
It is indicated in the text that the point of View from which Hume's philosophy is mainly regarded is that of an experiment to explain knowledge, and generally the intellectual and moral outfit of man, without the assumption of a rational nature in man. The criticism in the volume, on the other hand, is directed to show (1) that the processes of Hume which ignore the rational self - the operation of reason - in the building up of a theory of knowledge, are invalid and (2) that the rational self - the assumption of a rational thinking principle in man - alone solves the problems he raises. Hume is treated in this endeavour to solve the problem of knowledge without rational presuppositions as a type. It is astonishing to those familiar with his thought to find how much of it is present in, and continues in varying forms to be re produced by, popular empirical philosophy. Origin of knowledge in vivid and faint states of consciousness; the potency of association; the I as a ?owing stream of consciousness; no substantive self; no objectively existing world; no freedom; good as pleasure and evil as pain; utility the standard of morals; dismissal of rational Theism, and natural histories of religion; with much else that will readily occur to the observer of present-day tendencies.
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