David Hume
Date Submitted: 04/26/2004 23:52:07
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (976 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 4 pages (976 words)
David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University where he studied but did not graduate, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to pursue philosophy. He later …
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