In the Old Calton cemetery in Edinburgh, David Hume’s mausoleum, a stout, cylindrical tower, dominates the surrounding tombstones. Contrasting with this imposing tomb, Hume insisted that it carry a ...
David Hume's philosophy posits that beauty resides not in objects, but within the mind of the beholder. This subjective ...
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On April 26, 1711, the baptismal register in Edinburgh reported the birth of a “son named David” to John Home and Katherine Falconer. In a different hand, written many decades later, another city ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Phyllis "Peggy" Vandenberg talks about David Hume's belifes and influence on the U.S. Constitution. Phyllis "Peggy" Vandenberg talks about 18th ...
After pretending to study law, and abandoning a brief attempt to work for a sugar importer in Bristol, David Hume, the second son of a prominent Edinburgh family, decided to return home and live with ...
This essay is taken from the foreword of George Caffentzis’s Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment. Caffentzis puts history back into chronology. The British ...
Scotland’s enlightened philosophers did not on the whole have an exciting time of it. Some piquant stories told about them – the infant Adam Smith kidnapped by gypsies, Adam Ferguson leading the ...
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