Search
Search
philosophybits:

“If, in order to answer the doubts started, new principles of philosophy must be…
philosophybits: “If, in order to answer the doubts started, new principles of philosophy must be…

Date

source

share

philosophybits:

“If, in order to answer the doubts started, new principles of philosophy must be laid, are not these doubts themselves very useful? Are they not preferable to blind and ignorant assent?”

David Hume, “Letter to Gilbert Elliot (March 10, 1751)”, The Letters of David Hume

Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More

More
articles

More
news

What is Disagreement?

What is Disagreement?

This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...

Classical Liberalism

Classical Liberalism

The English political theorist Leonard Hobhouse, in his book Liberalism (1911), makes the following observation: “The modern State accordingly starts...