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A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

The cornerstone of empirical philosophy; its radical skepticism famously awoke Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

David Hume

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The cornerstone of empirical philosophy; its radical skepticism famously awoke Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber."

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An attempt to introduce the experimental method into subjects like morality and human understanding.

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The cornerstone of empirical philosophy; its radical skepticism famously awoke Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber."

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An attempt to introduce the experimental method into subjects like morality and human understanding.

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