The document discusses David Hume's views on empiricism and the origins of knowledge. It states that according to Hume, all knowledge comes from experience and all experience comes from the senses. It also discusses Hume's views on taste and beauty, noting that he believed beauty exists in the mind of the beholder rather than in objects themselves.

1. Hume
An Empiricist

2. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience

3. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience
All experience comes from the
senses
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4. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience
All experience comes from the
senses
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5. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience Gold
All experience comes from the
senses

6. Hume
All knowledge comes from
experience Mountain
All experience comes from the
senses

7. Hume
All knowledge comes from Gold Mountain
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All experience comes from the
senses

8. “On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
the journey; and it is the greatest property.”
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
Hume I have set before you life and death, blessing
and cursing: therefore choose life, that both
thou and thy seed may live
Moses, Deuteronomy 30:19
The word virtue, with its equivalent in every
tongue, implies praise; as that of vice does
blame: And no one, without the most 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
Jesus, Mark 12:28-31
obvious and grossest impropriety, could affix
reproach to a term, which in general
acceptation is understood in a good sense; But with love, we are creative. With it, we
or bestow applause, where the idiom march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone,
we are able to sacrifice for others.
Chief Dan George
requires disapprobation.

9. Hume
It is natural for us to seek a Standard of
Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments
of men may be reconciled; at least, a
decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment,
and condemning another.

10. Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac

11. Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac

12. Hume
Beauty is no quality in things
themselves: It exists merely in the
mind which contemplates them;
and each mind perceives a
different beauty. Is beauty merely in the eye
of the beholder?

13. Hume
Whoever would assert an
equality of genius and elegance Mount Teneriffe
between OGILBY and MILTON,
would be thought to defend no
less an extravagance, than if he
had maintained a molehill to be
as high as TENERIFFE.
some molehill

14. Hume
Whoever would assert an
equality of genius and elegance Milton: Paradise Lost
between OGILBY and MILTON,
would be thought to defend no
less an extravagance, than if he
had maintained a molehill to be
as high as TENERIFFE.
Ogilby

15. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
Hume
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
But though poetry can never Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
submit to exact truth, it must be In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
confined by rules of art,
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
discovered to the author either Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
by genius or observation. I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

16. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

17. Hume
all the general rules of art
are founded only on
experience and on the
observation of the
common sentiments of
human nature.

18. Homer’s Popularity Over Time
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The same HOMER, who Rome Paris
pleased at ATHENS and 25
ROME two thousand Athens London
years ago, is still admired
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at PARIS and at
LONDON.

19. The Test of Time
Homer’s Popularity Over Time
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amidst all the variety and Rome Paris
caprice of taste, there are 25
certain general principles of Athens London
approbation or blame, whose
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influence a careful eye may
trace in all operations of the
mind.

20. The Critic
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a strong sense, united to delicate
sentiment, improved by practice,
perfected by comparison, and
cleared of all prejudice, can alone
entitle critics to this valuable
character; and the joint verdict of
such, wherever they are to be
found, is the true standard of taste
and beauty.

21. The Critic
Hume
a strong sense, united to delicate
sentiment, improved by practice,
perfected by comparison, and
cleared of all prejudice, can alone
entitle critics to this valuable
character; and the joint verdict of
such, wherever they are to be
found, is the true standard of taste
and beauty.