Thursday, May 8, 2008

Hume 3

In section VIII Hume goes into necessity verses liberty. He says that there are necessary forces, causes and effects that all coinside one another. for instance A must cause B and this will happen all the time. But if you think about this one can tell that depending on the factors, which can change, a different outcome may occur. He later talks about human nature. Here i think he is more on the money. He talks about hidden motives that people may have that can alter the expected outcome and we may nto realize it due to the fact that they have not been put out in hte open. this happens quite frequently I think. I beleive that sometimes things can be unpredictable due to all the possible factors that may change the outcome. I mean I know everyone wants a definate answer but there are just so many possibilities that can change the outcome. Now if you can nail down all the factors then you have a good shot of getting the effect right but without that then anything can happen.

1 comment:

Erin said...

I think that when Hume talks about necessity vs liberty he is saying that it all comes together.
And that hidden motives is true because no one does anything that they dont expect something in retrun even if it is just something small and meaning less that they get in return like a thank you or a smile.