DAVID HUME:  AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING   1) How…

DAVID HUME:  AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING   1) How…

DAVID HUME: AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING1) How does Hume view two imagined reports:

 

a) “all authors, in all languages, agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total

darkness over the whole earth for eight days”; and

b) “all historians who treat of England should agree that on the first of January 1600, Queen

Elizabeth died; that both before and after her death she was seen by her physicians and the

whole court; that her successor was acknowledged and proclaimed by the parliament; and that, after being interred a month, she again appeared, resumed the throne, and governed England for three years”.

2) How does Hume regard the following skeptics:

(a) Cartesian skeptic

(b) Philosophical skeptic

(c) Mitigated skeptic

https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/enquiry.pdf