POLS 250 Lecture 10: Week 10
4 Dec 2017
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David hume (1711-1776: hume"s epistemology, the passions vs reason, natural and artificial virtues, the circumstances of justice", against the social contract. Hume video: put man in the middle, where do we get knowledge from, from our senses, brain empty except for the things we have observed. Hume: scottish philosopher (influenced utilitarianism [bentham and mill] and conservatism[burke], central concern: limits of reason, reject: claims of natural law, natural rights, social contract (esp. Locke: morality and political institutions are premised on the passions" (not reason or faith, start: his account of knowledge [based on sense-experience] Is this based on reason: expectation that b follows a, does it necessarily follow that i will be nourished on wednesday, no, there is not grantee because not based on reason. Hume the mitigated sceptic: not reason that ground our belief, what justifies our beliefs experience [we are habitual creatures] Reason: laws of nature or a social contract [hume says no!]
