Project Gutenberg #4705
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
1739Hume's major work on knowledge, mind, and morality, prepared section by section from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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Chapter 39 — SECT. III. OF THE ANTIENT PHILOSOPHY. Central question How did older philosophical systems handle mind and world? Main argument Hume reviews ancient philosophy as a set of attempts to explain the...
personify every thing: And in the antient philosophers, by these fictions of sympathy and antipathy. We must pardon children, because of their age; poets, because they profess to follow implicitly the suggestions of their fancy: But what excuse shall we find to justify our philosophers in so signal a weakness?