David Hume (May 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776) on Individual and Leaving Society

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(1711 - 1776)

Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Librarian and Essayist, as well as Philosophical Empiricist, Skeptic, and Naturalist

: Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (1711?1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. (From: Plato.Stanford.edu.)


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“What is the meaning, then, of that principle, that a man, who, tired of life, and hunted by pain and misery, bravely overcomes all the natural terrors of death, and makes his escape from this cruel scene; that such a man, I say, has incurred the indignation of his creator, by encroaching on the office of divine providence, and disturbing the order of the universe?... Has not every one, of consequence, the free disposal of his own life? And may he not lawfully employ that power with which nature has endowed him?”

Source: "Essays Moral, Political, and Literary," by David Hume, edited by Liberty Fund, 1777, with a forward by Eugene F. Miller, 1 October 1984. Section: The Life of David Hume, Esq. Part III. Essay IX. Of Suicide.

"Essays Moral, Political, and Literary," by David Hume, edited by Liberty Fund, 1777, with a forward by Eugene F. Miller, 1 October 1984. Section: The Life of David Hume, Esq.

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