2015-04-22
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So I want to begin the show today by talking about something that Massimo Pigliucci,
in my opinion, brilliantly said in the interview that we did with him last episode.
More specifically, I guess, when I asked him the question,
what did David Hume think that he was answering with his work?
What questions faced him and his generation?
What did he think he was setting out to comment on with all of his subsequent work?
And Massimo said that David Hume would have thought that he was rebuilding philosophy from the ground up.
But why would David Hume feel this way?
I mean, it's kind of weird, don't you think?
Like, where did philosophy go?
I mean, you don't fix something that ain't broke.
I mean, I got news for you guys.
If you own a building, you don't rebuild the building for no reason, you know, you embellish the building.