FYI 

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the philosopher David Hume. A 
key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, Hume was an 
empiricist who believed that humans can only have knowledge of things they have 
themselves experienced.

Hume made a number of significant contributions to philosophy. He saw human 
nature as a manifestation of the natural world, rather than something above and 
beyond it. He gave a sceptical account of religion, which caused many to 
suspect him of atheism. He was also the author of a bestselling History of 
England. His works, beginning in 1740 with A Treatise of Human Nature, have 
influenced thinkers from Adam Smith to Immanuel Kant and Charles Darwin, and 
today he is regarded by some scholars as the most important philosopher ever to 
write in English. 



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015cpfp  
 
 
  
This is also available to download from iTunes.   
 
 
 
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