Forgive me, first for being late on responding to this (i've been away in florida, i got back tonight) and second for being ignorant of philosophy, but what about hume do you love so much?
don't worry about responding later! responding at all is wonderful in and of itself! and i got your postcard. :) it's so exciting when i get those from you every once in a while.
i love Hume because he rejects the idea of the unalterable ego and he believes that the law of cause and effect is nonsense and an invention of our brains and that we become habituated things and that's why floating off our chair would surprise us and insists that we not jump to conclusions because our brains can "cut and paste" ideas and he believes that our emotion dictates our actions and that cold hard reason has nothing to do with it.
and i agree with him.
that was a very brief (and probably incomplete) summary. we should talk more later.
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Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away--
Half a crate of whisky every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And René Descartes was a drunken fart.
'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he's pissed.
and thats all I know about that...
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Love Hume, my favorite too. ^_^
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i love Hume because he rejects the idea of the unalterable ego and he believes that the law of cause and effect is nonsense and an invention of our brains and that we become habituated things and that's why floating off our chair would surprise us and insists that we not jump to conclusions because our brains can "cut and paste" ideas and he believes that our emotion dictates our actions and that cold hard reason has nothing to do with it.
and i agree with him.
that was a very brief (and probably incomplete) summary. we should talk more later.
<3. emma.
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