Philosophy / Unit 9 Philosophy 0367 review, 2 to 3 minutes
Hume's Campaign
The idea
One empiricist principle applied department by department: if all substantive knowledge comes from experience, watch what experience actually delivers—and what it never does.
In practice
The principle. Hume pushed empiricism to its working edge: trace every idea to the experience that supplied it, and treat what cannot be traced as suspect. Then he audited the accounts, one by one.
Where people slip
Hume demolishes justifications, not practices—he never advises against induction, morals, or government. Read him as auditing the books, not burning the building—the building, by his own account, was never in danger.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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