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Re: Hume the Humane

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Post by mrec » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 12:10 AM UTC

checkyoursudo wrote: post #10

mrec wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He was very much included when I was doing undergrad philosophy. (UK, ~30 years ago.)

I finished my undergrad in philosophy at a religious uni in the US about 20 years ago. We had a bit of Hume. The monks (most of the philosophy professors were monks) were more into ancient and medieval philosophers, with the exception of Nietzsche and Heidegger. One monk in particular loved teaching Nietzsche and Heidegger. I would have preferred more Hume, as I later discovered.

We were almost the exact opposite; I don't think we really touched on ancient and mediaeval writers at all. Not much in the religious vein either, we more topic-centric (personal identity, ethics, formal logic etc) than philosopher-centric.

Re: Hume the Humane

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Post by checkyoursudo » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

mrec wrote: post #11

checkyoursudo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I finished my undergrad in philosophy at a religious uni in the US about 20 years ago. We had a bit of Hume. The monks (most of the philosophy professors were monks) were more into ancient and medieval philosophers, with the exception of Nietzsche and Heidegger. One monk in particular loved teaching Nietzsche and Heidegger. I would have preferred more Hume, as I later discovered.

We were almost the exact opposite; I don't think we really touched on ancient and mediaeval writers at all. Not much in the religious vein either, we more topic-centric (personal identity, ethics, formal logic etc) than philosopher-centric.

I did one of my four years at a very large public university, and my experience there was much more like you describe. I would have preferred that, ultimately. I didn't know at the time.

Possibly, college kids (or secondary school kids heading into college) don't commonly understand there could be a significant difference in instruction. Or maybe it was just me.

Re: Hume the Humane

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Post by dang » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 7:32 PM UTC

alexashka wrote: post #6

This article used so many words, I still don't know what makes Hume unique or interesting. I wish the author had more time, to make it shorter - or whoever is paying him, the wisdom to not pay per page of text.

Maybe so, but can you please not post shallow dismissals to Hacker News? This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Hume the Humane

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 7:44 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #13

alexashka wrote: post #6

This article used so many words, I still don't know what makes Hume unique or interesting. I wish the author had more time, to make it shorter - or whoever is paying him, the wisdom to not pay per page of text.

Maybe so, but can you please not post shallow dismissals to Hacker News? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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