Thoughts on Hume
Essay title: Thoughts on Hume
Hume-
Impressions = experiences
perception of self. Many people have presupposed perceptions of self. Many consider Hume to be archaic. 17th century worldview presupposes science and sciences worldview of understanding nature. Wood has a view of nature as mechanistic, Hume shares Woods view. With Hume its presupposed. People often jump to Woods presuppositions without questioning his initial reasoning. Science is essentially mathematics applied to nature. Ledger Wood says everything is mechanistic; man is just a cog in natures mechanism. Hume buys into the same view of nature. Too many people see nature as mechanistic, although nature is a mechanism. This is the modern/mechanistic world view. People see the uniformities in nature and jump to the conclusion that everything in the world is mechanistic. When Hume looks at the world like this, he assumes that personality can be interpreted mathematically, broken down into units, by some kind of scientific formula. Hume believes that people cant have a personal identity. An atomic unit of sense experience for Hume is an impression.
We say we see the whole object, Hume sees the parts. Hume tends to think in terms of atoms of experience. Atomic units as impressions. We are aware of the self residing in