| Uitgebreide vaknaam |
De Filosofie van David Hume: Epistemologie, Ethiek en Religie |
| Leerdoelen |
- to critically engage with an early-modern text
- to compare and evaluate different interpretations of Hume’s ideas
- to assess the importance of Hume’s wider philosophical system for his epistemology and moral theory
- to apply knowledge of Hume’s intellectual context to the interpretation of his arguments
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| Omschrijving |
David Hume is a radical philosopher, someone who naturalized epistemology and ethics. Highly critical of rationalist pretensions in philosophy, Hume stressed human habits, emotions, feelings, and conventions rather than Reason with capital R. Based on a philosophical examination of human nature, Hume comes to highly skeptical conclusions about the nature and scope of knowledge; nor was he positive about religious faith. For Hume, the order of the world and our moral system is essentially the product of the projection of our ideas and emotions onto the world; the world itself is without essences, causes, and moral facts. Or so it seems. In this course we will pay in particular attention to Hume’s projectivism and engage with some modern interpretations of his philosophy. As one of the most influential philosophers of all times, the Humean predicament might be said to be the human predicament; his is a vital voice in contemporary philosophy. |
| Uren per week |
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| Onderwijsvorm |
(Lecture and Seminar)
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| Toetsvorm |
(small assignments and final essay, to be written either in Dutch or in English (the student’s own choice))
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| Vaksoort |
bachelor
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| Coördinator |
prof. dr. L.W. Nauta
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| Docent(en) |
prof. dr. L.W. Nauta
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| Verplichte literatuur |
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| David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding and the Principles of Morals |
the standard edition is P.H. Nidditch, or the critical one by T. Beauchamp) |
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