Moral philosophy professor James Beattie of Marischal College accused David Hume of Eurocentric arrogance, ignorance and victim-blaming, writes Dr Robin Mills Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...
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The University of Edinburgh today confirmed it is considering renaming the David Hume Tower due to the philosopher's links to slavery. A spokesman for the Scottish university told MailOnline that it ...
Taking the philosopher’s name off a tower ignores history and is no help to the present “Learn, Mr Hume, to prize the blessings of Liberty and Education, for… had you been born and bred a slave, your ...
According to the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), humans are fundamentally social. It’s only by connecting with others — those that are like us and those that are unlike us — that we ...
If you judged David Hume the man by his philosophy, you may judge him as disagreeable. He was a Scottish philosopher who epitomized what it means to be skeptical – to doubt both authority and the self ...
How did one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived get so much wrong? David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’ pantheon, but when it comes to politics, he erred time and again ...
The date of July 4, 1776, has other claims to fame, of course. But while Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and their fellow revolutionaries were meeting in Philadelphia to publish the ...
4 Extra Debut. Allan Little profiles the philosopher David Hume, born in 1711, whose scepticism challenged old beliefs. From May 2011. Show more Recorded on location in Edinburgh, Allan Little pays a ...