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Philosophize This!

Episode #052 ... David Hume pt. 2 - Design

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the podcast, we continue our discussion of David Hume. This time, we focus on Hume's response to the Teleological Argument, which goes a little something like this: “Look at how perfectly everything works! All of this must have been designed by God.” We also learn about Hume’s view on miracles, and find out how unimpressed he is that Bruce Willis was the sole survivor of that train accident. All this and more on the latest episode of Philosophize This! Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday, and I hope you love the

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show.

0:40.3

Just think for a second about what happened on the last episode of the show.

0:44.6

We all learned about David Hume, right?

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Scottish philosopher, the, the, the foreman of what's known as a Scottish Enlightenment,

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living in the 1700s, calling into question all kinds of stuff.

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Cosmological argument for God's existence, teleological argument for God's existence.

0:59.6

Aristotle's four causes, which by the way, when he did it was completely scandalous.

1:05.6

He even called into question causality itself.

1:08.7

I mean, what was wrong with this guy?

1:10.5

Let's make a, do a psych profile on David Hume, 300 years later.

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Was he, was he abused as a child?

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