David Hume (Person) AKA David Home
David Hume
1711 AD - 1776 AD
AKA David Home
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist] and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
An opponent of philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behavior, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions"
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