David Hume the untroubled skeptic
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David Hume brought philosophy into a new age along with a number of other men of eighteenth century Scotland. These philosophers neglected the speculations and superstitions of the past. Led by Hume, these philosophers had a Cartesian view, "a view that envisioned man as a human demigod, who derives his origin from heaven, and retains evident marks of his lineage and descent." David Hume was the leader of these Scottish philosophers, as he brought a lot to the table, so to speak. He brought with him, and instilled this into the other philosophers, a view that "there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions: The same events follow from the same causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit: these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed through society, have been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprises, which have ever been observed among mankind." (http:// www blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Hume.htm)
David Hume was born on April 26th, 1711in Edinburgh, Scotland...