In 1764 the painter Joshua Reynolds and writer Samuel Johnson founded a dining club known as the "Literary Club" which met regularly to eat and talk (being the nature of things). Which one of these Enlightenment writers did NOT belong to this club?
a. James Boswell
b. Edmund Burke
c. Edward Gibbon
d. David Hume
e. Adam Smith
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a. James Boswell
b. Edmund Burke
c. Edward Gibbon
d. David Hume
e. Adam Smith
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David Hume
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born
April 26, 1711
died
August 25, 1776
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male
place of birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
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Philosophy, Science, Religion & Spirituality
influences
Locke, Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Hutcheson, Newton, Epicurus, Cicero, Malebranche
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"David Hume (26 April 1711 – 25 August 1776)[1], Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian is an important figure in Western philosophy, and in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment.
He first gained recognition and respect as a historian, but academic interest in Hume's work has in recent years centered on his philosophical writing. His History of England was the standard work on English history for many years, until Macaulay's The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
Hume was the first philosopher of the modern era to produce a naturalistic philosophy. This philosophy partly consisted in rejection of the historically prevalent conception of human minds as being miniature versions ...more
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
— David Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature)
— David Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature)
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"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
— David Hume
— David Hume
"Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness."
— David Hume
— David Hume
























