{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"David Hume - Part 2: The Fragile Foundations of Knowing","description":"Picture a child watching a spark leap from a fire, or a farmer planting seeds with hope that the sun and rain will return. We trust that what has happened will happen again, that cause leads to effect, that the future echoes the past. But what if none of this is guaranteed by reason—only by habit?\r\n\r\nDavid Hume’s central insight is usually called skepticism, but that word misses the peculiar force of his challenge. Hume did not deny that people know things. He did not claim that all certainty is lost. Instead, he asked what, exactly, justifies our most confident beliefs—about cause, about the self, about right and wrong. His answer is not comforting. Our trust in causation, our sense of self, and even our moral judgments are not anchored in pure logic. They are the products of the mind’s natural propensities and habits, not of demonstration.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/david-hume","author_name":"The Archive Network"}