David Hume
Nacido: May 07, 1711 – Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, and essayist whose work focused on empiricism, skepticism, human nature, ethics, religion, and political economy. He is best known for A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, and The History of England, which profoundly shaped modern philosophy and historiography.
Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor
David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711 and raised in a modest but well-connected Scottish family at Ninewells, in the Borders, after the early death of his father. He entered the University of Edinburgh unusually young, studying the classics, philosophy, and law, though he soon found that legal study held little appeal beside the life of the mind. In his late teens and early twenties he passed through what he later described as an intense intellectual crisis, driven by overwork and ambition. A decisive turning point came when he abandoned conventional professional expectations and devoted himself to letters. Time spent in France, especially at La Flèche, gave him the quiet and discipline to draft the work that would define his early career.
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Voces de la Comunidad
"David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism"
— Britannica
"David Hume, to my mind the greatest of all British philosophers"
— A. J. Ayer
"David Hume (who, in his lifetime, was better known as a historian than as a philosopher)"
— The New Yorker
"Generally regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume was also noted as an historian and essayist"
— Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"The cult of David Hume, arguably the greatest philosopher the West has ever produced, never took off"
— Aeon
"The suggestion of David Hume was the very thing ... that first interrupted my dogmatic slumber"
— Immanuel Kant
"David Hume was a complex man. Erasing his name is too simplistic a gesture"
— The Guardian
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