Anyone ever read anything by Tuesday Lobsand Rampa?
Or a book called "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton?
Or a book called "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton?
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Hume's influence is all over adam smith.
They used to be really close friends. He actually published Hume's works that are on religion after hume died.
See hume was perceived as an atheist and all his works were discredited. The intellectuals at the time barely looked into the content of his work. They just went "oh he is an atheist so it must be crap" and they threw his book in the garbage.
Its astonishing that a man with Hume's intellect ( a really smart mofo) could not even get a job at a university just because he was thought of as an atheist (he wasn't though)
He lived off the $$ he made writing on England's history..
his serious anti-religious works were published after he died by adam smith (adam was too powerful to be touched by the fanatics at the time)
If you want to read a great book about religion, buy hume's dialogues on natural religion. All the arguments and counter arguments that the 'new atheists' are using now have been said 300 years ago by hume in greater depth and founded on much stronger reasoning.
I am at the moment writing my final paper on 2 works of hume. His epistemology and the dialogs. If anyone's interested i can share the final draft..
They used to be really close friends. He actually published Hume's works that are on religion after hume died.
See hume was perceived as an atheist and all his works were discredited. The intellectuals at the time barely looked into the content of his work. They just went "oh he is an atheist so it must be crap" and they threw his book in the garbage.
Its astonishing that a man with Hume's intellect ( a really smart mofo) could not even get a job at a university just because he was thought of as an atheist (he wasn't though)
He lived off the $$ he made writing on England's history..
his serious anti-religious works were published after he died by adam smith (adam was too powerful to be touched by the fanatics at the time)
If you want to read a great book about religion, buy hume's dialogues on natural religion. All the arguments and counter arguments that the 'new atheists' are using now have been said 300 years ago by hume in greater depth and founded on much stronger reasoning.
I am at the moment writing my final paper on 2 works of hume. His epistemology and the dialogs. If anyone's interested i can share the final draft..
As for books I'm actually reading, I've been doing some lighter reading lately. I finished An Embarrasement of Mangoes which was an autobiographical account of a magazine editor and her husband who took two years off in their lives, bought a cruise ship and spent it cruising around the Caribbean. It was actually a great book with good humour, annecdotes, and a good mix of cooking/culinary insights.
Now I'm working on A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean, which is another autobiographical work by a much more jaded journalist and stock trader following his wife and he on assorted travels over the course of several years. It is meant to be funny, and some of it is, but overall I've not been enjoying it near as much as the last book I mentioned.
Now I'm working on A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean, which is another autobiographical work by a much more jaded journalist and stock trader following his wife and he on assorted travels over the course of several years. It is meant to be funny, and some of it is, but overall I've not been enjoying it near as much as the last book I mentioned.
