David Hume
David Hume is most commonly known as one of the most important philosophers to ever write in the English language. His development of extreme skepticism in philosophy, and rejection of traditional metaphysics, has been integral to the development of modern philosophical thinking. Although philosophers of the past three hundred years may owe a great debt to him, and his main legacy today is as a philosopher, Hume, in his lifetime, gained the most acclaim as a historian. His work The History of Great Britain, published from 1754 to 1762, is a six-volume analysis of British history form the time of the Roman occupation until the first of the Stuart monarchs. “The first Quality of a historian is to be true and impartial; the next is to be interesting,” said Hume. Hume wanted to produce an unbiased history that was interesting for a common citizen to read. Hume’s main focus in this voluminous work is to convey an understanding of the British constitution and its history, without factional, or partisan, biases. Hume views his history as free from the traditional prejudices litter British histories, and is also quick to point out his superiority to these historians. Although the liberal Hume labeled himself as “a Whig, but a
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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