NAH. MAYBE YOUR’RE WRONG.

CHARACTER IS A RESULT
OF
STEREOTYPED
PRINCIPALS
PART 1
The Great Infidel, The Mighty
DAVID HUME Modern Skeptic, and the greatest
Anglophone Philosopher of all time.
• Born on May 7, 1711, in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Died April 26, 1776
• With his Calvinist family, young Hume faithfully
attended services in Church of Scotland, where his
uncle served as pastor.
• He left home at age twelve to study law at the
University of Edinburgh.
• He developed a stronger interest in philosophy and
literature while a student at Edinburgh. In 1729,
Hume left Edinburgh to pursue a self-directed
education. He worked briefly for a sugar merchant
in England and left for France in 1734, where he
wrote his first book, A Treatise of Human Nature.
 “A TURN OF EVENTS”
• Hume caused a stir by advocating a system of morality
based on utility, or usefulness, instead of God’s
authority.
• Four Dissertations: The Natural History of Religion, Of
the Passions, Of Tragedy, Of the Standard of Taste.
These works aroused controversy in the religious
community before they became public.
• Goes hand-in-hand with Jean Jacques Rosseau
• He died from a painful internal disorder on April 26,
1776, at age sixty-five
• Despite Hume’s nay-saying contemporaries, his
theories of the “evolution” of ethics, institutions, and
social conventions proved highly influential for later
philosophers.
 HUME’S PHILOSOPHY
ABOUT THE “SELF”
CHARACTER IS A RESULT
OF
STEREOTYPED
PRINCIPALS
 Definition of Terms
• Compatibilism - is the belief that free will and determinism are
mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both
without being logically inconsistent
• Determinism - all events, including moral choices, are
completely determined by previously existing causes
• Necessary - nothing exists without a cause of its existence
• Liberty - Free to choice
• Skepticism – the belief to doubt or question any object.
• Impressions - Impressions are the basic sensations of our
experience, the elemental data of our minds: pain, pleasure,
heat, cold, happiness, grief, fear, exhilaration, and so on. These
impressions are “lively” and “vivid.”
• Ideas - Ideas are copies of impressions, and as a result they
are less “lively” and “vivid.” Ideas include thoughts and images
that are built up from our primary impressions through a variety
of relationships, but because they are derivative copies of
impressions they are once removed from reality.
• Body theory - remain in the same body
• Mind theory - memories at different times Not true because of
change over time Psychological connectedness.
THE “NO-SELF”
THEORY
• Self doesn't persist over time.
• There is no you that is the same person from birth to death.
• Self is just an illusion.
• Self is a bundle of impressions.
• Self cannot be the same over time.
• Nothing exist that holds all of the things that make you, you!
• Self or Impression is never constant.

The so called self is just a bundle of impressions, consisting

of a zillion different things – the body, the mind and
emotions, preferences, memories even labels that are
imposed to others.
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