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David Hume was born in April 26th and died in august 25 in 1776. As a young boy he really enjoyed classical reading especially Cicero. He developed a strong desire to become a scholar and philosopher. He attended the university of Edinburgh at age of twelve. He is an avid reader and enjoyed history literature, modern philosophy and some sciences. He is best known in modern times for his writing treaties of human nature. He was a historian and philosopher. Q. So David outside of Cicero what did you read as a young boy? David Hume: I also enjoyed reading Voet, Vergil and Veinnius.
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Q. Tell me, why did you have such low opinion of your university professors? David Hume: You know I felt they were teaching me nothing. Everything that they taught me I could of easily learned from a book. All they gave me was a bunch of busy work so I really feel that I learned nothing from them.

Q. What did your parents want you to become? Did they want you to be philosophers? David: No they were not very supportive; they wanted me to be a lawyer.

Q. When did you start to believe that God had no place in developing the human psyche? David Hume: My belief in empiricism that I had adopted at an early age influenced my belief that God has no place in the sciences or the development of human reasoning and judgment.

Q. Who influenced you and whom do you have discussion with the most? David Hume: I have been influenced and spent a lot of time with John Locke, George Berkeley, Pierre Bayle and also because of my belief in empiricism I have been influenced by intellectual such as Isaac Newton, Samuel Clark and Joseph Butler.

Q. So what are you trying to solve and determine? David Hume: So I am trying to solve to destroy false and adulterated ideas of metaphysics. I want to reform all philosophy using empiricism as a standard to test if certain philosophy is intelligible. Basically I want to use scientific thought to measure philosophy.

Q. Why are you so upset about your era’s philosophy? David Hume: Well first there are many who tried to mix philosophy with theological views. Some philosophy has too much religious overtone that take away from ideas that are based on fact and observation.

Q. So what is your main philosophy? David Hume: I believe that men’s reasoning and observation are derived from sensation reflection and ideas come from our impression.

Hello, my name is David Hume and I am from Scotland. My last name was originally Home but however the most Scotts could not pronounce it correctly so I changed my name to Hume. I went to college at age of twelve to the university of Edinburgh. I was not impressed and I really didn’t enjoy teacher or my professor because I felt that they were useless. All needed was books to learn. Professors are such a waste. While at school I became enamored with philosophy. I loved reading books by Cicero and Vergil. By the time I was eighteen I was so inspired to discover in research my philosophy that I worked day and night researching reading and writing for ten years that I almost lost my sanity. After working a few years as a tutor and in merchant’s office I left for France where I wrote a treaty of human nature. I finished writing it when I was 26 years old. The book was based on my belief in empiricism which I had many discussion with John Locke and George Berkley my fellow philosopher. Needless to say I am a atheist and I do not believe there is a God and that God has a role in shaping human thought and human potential but I had to be careful with my writing since I lived in a very religious era where people have been put to death over their ideas that are considered blasphemous. All I was trying to do was to point that man did not need to be or have a mind like Gods. I feel that men’s ability of reasoning insight come from men himself not from God and that the science of men is the only solid foundation for other science and that experience and observation is the only method that science should use.
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Section 2: Primary source/Secondary source Primary sources #1 "Modern History Sourcebook: David Hume: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature."__FORDHAM.EDU__. 7 Dec. 2008 . #2  "Modern History Sourcebook: David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste, 1760." __FORDHAM.EDU__. 7 Dec. 2008 . Secondary sources #1  "David Hume (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)."__Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy__. 7 Dec. 2008 <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries #2  "Hume." __Philosophy Pages__. 7 Dec. 2008 <[|http://www.philosophypages.com] Primary Source Question 1. Why does David Hume think that the God's will and existence is unnecessary for human being? 2. Why did he believe that God had no place in DEVELOPING human physhe. 3. What is Hume trying to solve and determine? 4. Why does he hate the philosophers in his time?