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In the years after Hume's death the Whig party also reinvented itself as the Liberal party of reform. The philosophic followers of Hume in Scotland were often, like Robert Adamson, of the Liberal left; and tended to see Hume as Tory-leaning. However this must be seen in the context of the self-serving whig history of Hume's time. Hume's roots ...
George Hume was born in 1697 in Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland, into a distinguished noble family with deep roots in Scottish history.His father, Sir George Hume of Wedderburn, was the 3rd Baronet of Wedderburn who married his cousin Lady Margaret, daughter of Sir Patrick Hume,1st Baronet of Lumsden. [2]
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Hume was born on 26 April 1711, as David Home, in a tenement on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.He was the second of two sons born to Catherine Home (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Midlothian and his wife Mary Falconer (née Norvell), [14] and Joseph Home of Chirnside in the County of Berwick, an advocate of Ninewells.
[1] Hume sailed for Portugal as physician to the army under Arthur Wellesley in June 1808, but returned to England during the following year, and became physician to the Westminster Hospital. Resigning this office in 1811, he went back to the Peninsula. Hume was accused of insubordination and making false reports and his case was tried in 1813.
Hume's introduction presents the idea of placing all science and philosophy on a novel foundation: namely, an empirical investigation into human psychology.He begins by acknowledging "that common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings [i.e., any complicated and difficult argumentation]", a prejudice formed in reaction to "the present imperfect condition of the sciences" (including the ...