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A Treatise of Human Nature
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts (0 episodes recommend it and 2 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Stephen Dubner (1 episode) on Freakonomics Radio (1 episode) and No Stupid Questions (1 episode).
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He starts reading David hume's truth on human nature and gets in trouble for it because Hugh room is seen as like this Blasphemous atheist but Hume is also the single most important intellectual influence on Smith's life.
Stephen Dubner · Freakonomics Radio · Jan 2023 Listen at 29:17 The best things said about it
And this dates back to David Hume the Scottish philosopher This is from treaties of human nature he wrote this about our different elements I'm a venture to a firm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in Perpetual flux and movement.
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A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume is a foundational philosophical text by the eighteenth-century Scottish thinker that investigates the origins of human ideas, the mechanisms of the mind, and the nature of the self. The work gained substantive discussion across multiple episodes of popular discussion podcasts. On an episode of No Stupid Questions in January 2023, Stephen Dubner discussed Hume's philosophical legacy, quoting directly from the Treatise to illustrate the thinker's famous proposition that the self is nothing more than a bundle of different perceptions succeeding each other with unimaginable rapidity. Just a few weeks prior, in another January 2023 episode of Freakonomics Radio, Dubner explored Hume's profound personal and intellectual impact on his close friend Adam Smith during their respective eras. Dubner noted that reading Hume's radical philosophy often caused trouble for scholars of the period due to Hume's reputation as a controversial and blasphemous figure, yet emphasized that Hume remained the single most important intellectual influence on Smith's life and thinking. Together, these podcast segments highlighted how Hume's eighteenth-century psychological and philosophical inquiries continue to resonate in modern discussions surrounding human perception and intellectual history.
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Stephen Dubner he starts reading David hume's truth on human nature and gets in trouble for it because Hugh room is seen a… 1
“he starts reading David hume's truth on human nature and gets in trouble for it because Hugh room is seen as like this Blasphemous atheist but Hume is also the single most important intellectual influence on Smith's life”
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“and this dates back to David Hume the Scottish philosopher This is from treaties of human nature he wrote this about our different elements I'm a venture to a firm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in Perpetual flux and movement”