#DAVID HUME

[philosophybits]

When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and could I neither think, nor feel, nor see, nor love, nor hate after the dissolution of my body, I should be entirely annihilated...

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

[enlitment]

god this really sucks, I'm gonna [remembers that suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] write a 500-page philosophical treatise

[hungergamesbookclub]

Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Hunger Games” novel. Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025. The new book begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins’ most recent book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Collins has drawn upon Greek mythology and the Roman gladiator games for her earlier “Hunger Games” books. But for the upcoming novel, she cites the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. “With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” Collins said in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”

Suzanne Collins on her new Hunger Games novel, Sunrise on the Reaping

[funeral]

I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. [ . . . ] The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity.

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... reading is sexy ...

" Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. "

- David Hume

[deniz-mehtap]

bir şeyin güzelliği, onu seyredenin ruhunda gizlidir...

[cileklipalet]

bir şeyin güzelliği, onu seyredenin ruhunda gizlidir.

[tinta-y-cometas]

David Hume

[ethics-and-ink]

Excerpts from: Free Will, Algorithmic Determinism and the Lack of Common Sense

Read More Here

[nigrit]

Fantasy caricature?

The Savage Man (1767)

One for @enlitment as a Coda to your reading of 'Confessions'. I present: the Savage Man!

In Jan 1767, James Boswell, who had become entangled in the infamous squabble between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, published a humorous note in the London Chronicle. In it, he claimed that a print would soon appear, satirising JJ in the most ludicrous manner, presenting him as a hairy savage dressed in nothing but leaves being tormented by his foes. [He is shown trampling on coins and papers, alluding to his rejected pension and the Letters published by Hume]. Hume approaches from the left, dressed as a farmer carrying a basket with a huge fish lettered, "a Dinner / I have you Rousseau". Behind him, a doctor applies a clyster while another says, "He's Costive" [no idea what this means]. On his right, Voltaire, riding a hobby horse, flicks Rousseau's bum with a wet towel saying "I'll whip him into humanity", while Peter the Wildboy eggs him on. In the background, three apes gaze upon the scene, one exclaiming, "The Inequality of Mankind"!

In fact Boswell's notice was a complete fabrication dreamt up by his feverish imagination, for he he had become peeved at Rousseau's sudden coldness towards him. This had nothing to do with Hume and likely a lot to do with Therese's confession of her "thirteen times a night" (at least that's what Boswell told his diary) cross-Channel indiscretion with her 'patient' and 'employer'. At least JJ had been denying she was his mistress in correspondence since 1754. Anyway, I digress. The point is that some enterprising engraver decided to bring Boswell's verbal sketch to life and a print was duly executed.

[philosophybits]

Reading, and sauntering, and lounging, and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness.

David Hume, "Letter to Hugh Blair (1 April 1767)"

[quotessentially]

From David Hume’s The Natural History of Religion

[philosophybitmaps]

[enlitment]

Apparently tweeted this in December. Have no recollection of writing it and I am not even sure who it is meant to be about, but I reckon that the point still stands.

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2009- La belleza de las cosas existe en el espíritu de quien las contempla. 

(David Hume)