Author: Lilian McCarthy

  • Hume: Liberation and Sympathy

    Hume: Liberation and Sympathy

    David Hume was a Scottish philosopher in the 18th Century and was well known for his empiricist views on human nature. His most famous text was A Treatise of Human Nature, later rewritten as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, a work that grapples with ideas of perception, action, reason, and freedom. In his writing, Hume…