As the author of several well-known works such as "Treatise of Human Nature" (1739-1740), "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" (1748) and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion," David Hume is one of the most influential figures to hail from Great Britain (Morris). ... Several eminent figures in history from philosopher Immanuel Kant to economist Adam Smith to biologist/naturalists Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley credit David Hume as being the central influence in their writings. Hume's strong empirical views are clearly evident in his book, An Inquiry Concerning Human Under...

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Also connected to the idea of tabula rasa, is the theory of empiricism, the foundations of which "are found in the works of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume" (Caldwell 577). ... Hume, similarly, believed that human senses gave the humans the ability to perceive, and that perception is directly related to how a human's personality and moral judgement is formed. Hume also that the impressions made by the perceptions of the individual is what comprised the mind. ... Furthermore, Hume argued that these thoughts were only subjective and could not be proven to be directly c...

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David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, was a bundle theorist who believed that the self is nothing but experiences or "perceptions" connected by the relations of causation and similarity. ... " He defines a man's self" as the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank account." ...

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