David Hume's Philosophy - Bryan Magee & John Passmore (1987)

00:00 Introduction
03:17 Causality
08:52 The Self
13:13 Language & Hume's Fork
16:12 Limits of Reason
19:27 Importance of the Human
20:49 Other Areas
23:20 Human Nature
26:48 Modernity & Induction
32:36 Hume, the Man
35:12 Criterion of Reasonableness
37:28 Imagination
39:00 Influence on Kant

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[Philosophy_Overdose]

Note, this is a reupload. I preferred the audio of this version, so that's the main reason I decided to reupload it. I’ll still leave the previous video up as unlisted, so as to not break any external links with it. Sorry about any inconvenience!

[yvonneheald]

What a lovely man is John Passmore. A brilliant philosopher and his book on Hume is a necessity when studying David Hume. Such a excellent discourse betwwen these two men.

[Tom-rgex]

There's not many giants of philosophy we English speakers get to read in their original language without the buffer of translation, but boy how lucky we are that Hume is one of them. The Treatise is a delightful read, really changed my life.

[bradfordmccormick]

I sudied Hume a little in 1974 at Yale. I remember only two things:(1) we can only know constant conjunctions not the real [logical] causes of things, and (2) he suffered a painful death and remained true to his skepticism to the end. Both have been inspiring to me hre in USA ever since.

[rramach]

Superb discussion. Always enjoyed Bryan Magee’s clear and simple restatement of a philosopher’s main ideas.

[JamesMartinBass]

So nice to find this clever, knowledgable, and detailed conversation about Hume. I'm reading his A Treatise of Human Nature, Volume 1, right now. This is very helpful.

[OurFoundingLiars]

Did this actuslly air in syndicated television? That’s amazing

[ravivaradhan]

I found Prof. Magee's statements to be a lot more clear than the responses of Prof. Passmore, which quite often did not clearly address the specific issue highlighted by the questioner (Prof. Magee). As an example, Prof. Magee brought up the notion of "self" and asked how David Hume treated that. This is a very profound question, one that the great Buddhist masters including the Buddha himself and Nagarjuna, later, had discussed in depth. I found that Prof. Passmore was non-responsive. In fact, I am surprised that none of the Humean scholars seem to recognize the influence that Nagarjuna (and the Buddhist philosophers) had on David Hume.

[TimGreigPhotography]

Wait. We can't see the cause of the ball bouncing? Is that a human limitation that disappears upon using a high speed camera, for instance?

[mathematicsandstuff]

Oh yeah. I've read you 5% maybe, but the standard meter in Paris is highly elegant phrasing. I can imagine everything, trust

[zootjitsu]

They call him professor pasmore because he don’t pass the zaza

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[frankduval]

Hume helped me stop believing in Darwin's evolution.