Hume: An Introduction | Benjamin Watkins | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #9

🔍 Overview: In this episode, Benjamin Watkins (from Real Atheology) and Sam explore the life and work of the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume.

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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: Who was David Hume, and what was life like whilst he was writing in 18th-century Scotland?
[Highlight 2]: What philosophical lineages have come down from Hume to us today?
[Highlight 3]: How did David Hume challenge the 'Design Argument' almost 100 years before Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species'?

🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:40 - Benjamin Blake Speed Watkins and Philosophy
4:34 - Hume's Background and Works
11:07 - Hume's Writings vs Historic Religious Sensibilities
15:45 - Empiricism (Human Perception and Knowledge)
22:52 - A Treatise of Human Nature
28:51 - Moral Sentiments and Ethical Decision-Making
37:06 - Hume's Challenges
49:37 - Confronting Design Pre Darwin
1:03:48 - Publishing 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'
1:11:23 - Atheism: A Death Sentence
1:13:57 - Philosophy of Religion: A Footnote to Hume
1:26:13 - Hume and Political Thought
1:29:36 - Hume's Fork (A Priori and A Posterior - Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact)
1:39:30 - Closing Remarks

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