In a different hand, written ... “Hume, David” as one of the most revolutionary thinkers of modernity—the “great infidel,” as Samuel Johnson called him. Hume’s work has bled into ...

David Hume was dying ... Human Nature—a masterpiece—was written when he was in his mid-twenties, and published in three volumes in 1738-40. In a last autobiographical memoir, Hume remarked ...

His was a history written in a library, and it was bound to suffer once the Germanic revolution in historiography had been assimilated by English writers. David Hume, 1711-1776. For many decades ...

David Hume (left) has good claim to be considered the greatest philosopher ever to have written in English ... The result is not a work of original scholarship – for that, one should look ...