{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"David Hume","description":"Imagine walking into a library where every book is a debate, every shelf a battlefield between old certainties and new doubts. This was the world David Hume inherited—a Scotland newly joined to England, minds electrified by science yet haunted by the ghosts of metaphysical authority.\r\n\r\nIn this world, answers were provisional and certainty was a luxury. The question was no longer just what we can know, but whether knowledge itself could survive the loss of its ancient guarantees. Hume was born in seventeen eleven, just a few years after the Union of Scotland and England. But the more radical union was intellectual. The old scholastic language still lingered in universities, yet Isaac Newton’s physics and John Locke’s psychology promised a new way to study reality. Could the world be explained by laws, observation, and experiment rather than by inherited tradition? In Hume’s time, that was not a settled matter. Every merchant, physician, and minister depended on the confidence that bread would nourish, fire would burn, and tomorrow would resemble today. But what, if anything, justified that confidence?\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 35 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/david-hume","author_name":"The Archive Network"}