pickFor no particular reason I read this biography of Scottish philosopher David Hume. The author blends Hume‘s life with his philosophical ideas (so some sections can be a little boring, but most were quite lively).
“The book carrries us, in a manner, into company, and unites the two greatest and purest pleasures of human life, study and society.”
so-soAfter a short introductory chapter on Hume's life, the book consists of transcripts of 4 lectures Ayer gave on Hume and it shows. It is very much Ayer's assessment of Hume and where he agrees and disagrees philosophically with him rather than an introduction to Hume.
Stop 8 on today‘s home-library tour!
Very few people know I have and have read these. I encourage folks to read anything and everything they can and want, but the sentiment is rarely reciprocated. Our #LitsyFamily bucks that trend. 🤗
Do you own or have you read any of these books?!
This is one of my #apologetics shelves. I‘m a nerd. 🙈🤓
#MrBooksBooks
I find it interesting that we push this idea of “everyone must go to college” and we disparage self-education of any kind as somehow not legitimate, when so many well respected people have had little or no formal education (or in more recent times, nothing beyond compulsory education). Meanwhile, we have useless degrees and a growing student debt crisis that hurts society as a whole, not just those who will never known adult life without debt.
Holy mother of god I can‘t get away from David Hume. Somehow he ends up EVERYWHERE!!!
#help #davidhume #middlemarch #mylifeinmiddlemarch #rebeccamead
Pretty sure my browser is staking me...it knows what I‘m thinking and what I look up at the library. It‘s a little creepy. Maybe it has some ideas on this bloody paper and that is getting dangerously close to pushing into its 3rd year now. #DavidHume #Hume #Philosophy #millionsofwords
FOUND IT!!! Not the most exciting historian I‘ve ever read, but at least it‘s something. I do love a little (more than a little) historical context. lol #RichardII #Shakespearereadalong #DavidHume #HistoryofEngland
