David Hume

Question 1

What is Hume’s philosophy based on

Answer 1

empiricism

Question 2

what is empiricism

Answer 2

came from the enlightment and scientific revolution; empiricist model; KNOWLEDGE ONLY COMES FROM EXPERIENCE

Question 3

What was Hume’s big idea

Answer 3

impressions and ideas

Question 4

what impressions be described as

Answer 4

vivid

Question 5

what would ideas be described as

Answer 5

less vivid

Question 6

what was the relationship between impressions and ideas

Answer 6

impressions create ideas

Question 7

what are two types of ideas

Answer 7

simple and complex

Question 8

what are complex ideas made of

Answer 8

simple ideas

Question 9

how do we come to “knowledge” (no true knowledge because he was a skeptic

Answer 9

1) the relation of ideas -> apriori analytics
2) matters of fact -> a. posterori synthetic
3) casuality -> constant conjunction/probability

Question 10

how do we think

Answer 10

ASSOCITATION OF IDEAS

Question 11

what are the three parts of association of ideas

Answer 11

contiguity(time/place
resemblance
cause and effect (necessary)

Question 12

what is Hume’s view of the “self”

Answer 12

you can describe yourself, but you truly don’t really know idea of the self

Question 13

what does Hume think about causality

Answer 13

only thing that doesn’t have impression of, but is a necessity

Question 14

why can’t you truly have an idea of causality

Answer 14

cause -> effect

can’t sense the connection between cause and effect

Question 15

how does Hume view emotivism

Answer 15

feelings, are radical, have no ideas, and are weak

Question 16

why was Hume, in his eyes, a moderate skeptic

Answer 16

must live practically, can’t be a radical skeptic, think radically but must act moderately

Question 17

what does emotivism do

Answer 17

it’s a sign that you have a virtue that elicits emotion -> hard to base ethics on because people feel differently -> Hume doesn’t agree with everything -> society falls apart