No Universal Truth Essay -- Philosophy Religion Essays

No everyday TruthHume wrote, be a philosopher but, amidst wholly your philosophy, be still a man, (qtd. in Jones 351). This statement strikes me more than all others, written by Hume or any of the philosophers from W. T. Jones Hobbes to Hume. It demonstrates to me that even after all of the inquisition towards what and how we can greet any intimacy, and the very methodical ways in which Hume is re regurgitateed to examine these affairs, he realizes that zero point is truly certain and begins to lean towards a pragmatic and radically empiric point of view. It is, therefore, also my conclusion that, as much as we may aspire to find the universal, indubitable, and objective truth, none of it can be prove to be universal, indubitable, and objective.In support of this viewthe abandonment of the quest for certainty, espousal of provisional solutions as long as they work, and readiness to discard them when changing conditions make them no longer appropriateI will endeavor to b riefly examine substance, the self, and the presumed necessary connecter of ideas or events (Jones 349).By applying his bear empirical criterion of inwardness to the examination of such a nonably philosophical concept as substance, Hume flat out disposes of the entire belief itself. As has been formerly introduced by Descartes, substance is a fluctuating thing that takes on the same meaning as is best described by that certain je ne sais quoi. It is that certain something you just cant put your finger on, and by substance, we can understand nothing else than a thing which so exists that it needs no other thing in put to exist, (qtd. in Jones 174-175). Descartes naturally takes this thing to be God, but never questions the meaning of God or substance a... ... and finally removes reasons for the worldly concern of any connection between any of the ideas which we as a species have always held as being related. Hume also refutes any reason to believe in the existence of an e xternal world, or a world without us, which has not been discussed here. In the end, there is really no reason to believe in the existence of existence, if Humes deductions are to be taken quite so seriously. Of course, if that were to be done, none could live as they do.Since Hume himself is concerned with a philosophy that concerns the everyday individual, not even he can truly accept that nothing exists. It is when he reaches this point himself that he realizes one can be a philosopher but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man, (qtd. in Jones 351).Works CitedJones, W. T. Hobbes to Hume. 2nd edition. meet Worth Harcourt, 1980.