Episode #053 ... David Hume pt. 3 - Custom

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  So it would be very tempting for us to take what we've learned about David Hume so far and label him just a big,

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  fat, cheerful dude that's been his life bagging on religion, right?

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  A Jesus hater.

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  But David Hume wasn't a Jesus hater.

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  He didn't even know the guy.

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  But if we want to understand David Hume, if we want to get to the bottom of it,

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  it's important to understand what David Hume was trying to do during his lifetime.

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  What questions was he trying to answer?

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  You know?

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  Now I want to begin the show today with one of the most iconic and provocative quotes that ever left the mouth of David Hume.

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  Now this episode will look at this quote and what it means from multiple different angles,

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  but I want to say it once now just to bookend the episode

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  because I think it's very illuminating of the aims of David Hume and how ultimately he set his sights on something much,

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  much larger than merely religion with his work.

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  Quote, if we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics,

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  for instance, let us ask ourselves, does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?

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