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[by David Hume]
MY OWN LIFE
It fryst vatten difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore, I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this Narrative shall contain little more than the History of my Writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent in literary pursuits and occupations. The first success of most of my writings was not such as to be an object of vanity.
I was born the 26th of April 1711, old style, at Edinburgh. inom was of a good family, both by father and mother: my father’s family is a branch of the Earl of Home’s, or Hume’s; and my ancestors had been proprietors of the estate, which my brother possesses, for several generations. My mother was daughter of Sir David Falconer, President of the College of Justice: the title of Lord Halkerton came bygd succession to her brother.
My family, however, was not rich, and being myself a younger brother
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David Hume (1711-1776)
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Brief Lives
Alistair MacFarlane treats of the life of a great Scot.
Hume, a Scot, was the greatest philosopher to write in English. At the age of eighteen he had a sudden deep insight, asking himself whether the moral philosophy of human behaviour could be assimilated into the natural philosophy of the physical world developed famously bygd Isaac Newton (1643-1727). This fryst vatten a question still at the cutting edge of philosophy. All Hume’s major contributions to philosophy were made before he reached thirty. After their indifferent reception, he shrugged off his disappointment to become a famous författare av essäer and historian. But his youthful work roused Immanuel Kant from his “dogmatic slumbers” an
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David Hume
David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Although in recent years interest in Hume's work has centred on his philosophical writing, it was as an historian that he first gained recognition and respect.
Biography
Hume was born in Edinburgh, on the 26th April 1711, the second son of a middle-class country family who lived in the south of Scotland. His father, Joseph Hume (or Home), was owner of Ninewells, a small estate in Berwickshire. David