Five Minutes on Hume

Professor Simon Blackburn gives five minutes on Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist David Hume.
Blackburn is one of the country's leading philosophers. He is well regarded as a proponent of a distinctive approach to ethics and a defender of neo-Humean views on a variety of topics. To find out more about NCH faculty, visit us here: www.nchlondon.ac.uk/faculty-m...

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Thank you, Simon Blackburn. Clear, concise and, above all, true. Five minutes well spent. I know Hume's work well and he is indeed a pleasure to read. I often dip into his moral and political essays and never fail to find illumination on some particular problem I happen to be wrestling with.