#DAVID HUME

[philosophybits]

Reading, and sauntering, and lounging, and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness.

David Hume, "Letter to Hugh Blair (1 April 1767)"

[enlitment]

god this really sucks, I'm gonna [remembers that suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] write a 500-page philosophical treatise

[hungergamesbookclub]

Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Hunger Games” novel. Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025. The new book begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins’ most recent book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Collins has drawn upon Greek mythology and the Roman gladiator games for her earlier “Hunger Games” books. But for the upcoming novel, she cites the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. “With ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” Collins said in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”

Suzanne Collins on her new Hunger Games novel, Sunrise on the Reaping

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... reading is sexy ...

" Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. "

- David Hume

[deniz-mehtap]

bir şeyin güzelliği, onu seyredenin ruhunda gizlidir...

[tinta-y-cometas]

David Hume

[nigrit]

Fantasy caricature?

The Savage Man (1767)

One for @enlitment as a Coda to your reading of 'Confessions'. I present: the Savage Man!

In Jan 1767, James Boswell, who had become entangled in the infamous squabble between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, published a humorous note in the London Chronicle. In it, he claimed that a print would soon appear, satirising JJ in the most ludicrous manner, presenting him as a hairy savage dressed in nothing but leaves being tormented by his foes. [He is shown trampling on coins and papers, alluding to his rejected pension and the Letters published by Hume]. Hume approaches from the left, dressed as a farmer carrying a basket with a huge fish lettered, "a Dinner / I have you Rousseau". Behind him, a doctor applies a clyster while another says, "He's Costive" [no idea what this means]. On his right, Voltaire, riding a hobby horse, flicks Rousseau's bum with a wet towel saying "I'll whip him into humanity", while Peter the Wildboy eggs him on. In the background, three apes gaze upon the scene, one exclaiming, "The Inequality of Mankind"!

In fact Boswell's notice was a complete fabrication dreamt up by his feverish imagination, for he he had become peeved at Rousseau's sudden coldness towards him. This had nothing to do with Hume and likely a lot to do with Therese's confession of her "thirteen times a night" (at least that's what Boswell told his diary) cross-Channel indiscretion with her 'patient' and 'employer'. At least JJ had been denying she was his mistress in correspondence since 1754. Anyway, I digress. The point is that some enterprising engraver decided to bring Boswell's verbal sketch to life and a print was duly executed.

[philosophybitmaps]

[cileklipalet]

bir şeyin güzelliği, onu seyredenin ruhunda gizlidir.

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2009- La belleza de las cosas existe en el espíritu de quien las contempla. 

(David Hume)

[philosophybits]

The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

[enlitment]

Apparently tweeted this in December. Have no recollection of writing it and I am not even sure who it is meant to be about, but I reckon that the point still stands.

[entheognosis]

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

[safirefire]

Link to David Hume’s essay Of the First Principles of Government

It is a very short read and the website links his other works as well but given Sunrise on the Reaping is based on Hume’s implicit submission and the current American political landscape I’d like to highlight:

“…Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. ”

and

“Upon these three opinions, therefore, of public interest, of right to power, and of right to property, are all governments founded, and all authority of the few over the many.”

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience." -- David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" (1748)