David Hume

History Born : 26 April 1711 Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain Died : 25 August 1776 (aged 65) Edinburgh, Scotland , Great Britain Nationality : British Alma mater : University of Edinburgh (no degree) Era : 18th-century philosophy Region : Western philosophy School : 1. Scottish Enlightenment Naturalism 2.Skepticism 3. Empiricism Sentimentalism Liberalism

Early life Hume's father died when he was a child, just after the author's second birthday, and he was raised by his mother, who never re-married. He changed the spelling of his name in 1734, because of the fact that his surname Home, pronounced Hume, was not known in England. Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells in Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the fifteenth century. His finances as a young man were very "slender". His family was not rich and, as a younger son, he had little patrimony to live on.

Education Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelveat a time when fourteen was normal. At first, because of his family, he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, "an insurmountable aversion to everything but the pursuits of Philosophy and general Learning; and while fanceyed I was poring over Voet and Vinnius,Cicero and Virgil were the Authors which I was secretly devouring".

Career At 25 years of age, Hume, although of noble ancestry, had no source of income and no learned profession. As was common at his time, he became a merchant's assistant, but he had to leave his native Scotland. He travelled via Bristol to La Flèche in Anjou, France. There he had frequent discourse with the Jesuits of the College of La Flèche.

Last year In the last year of his life, Hume wrote an extremely brief autobiographical essay titled "My Own Life which summed up his entire life in "fewer than 5 pages", and notably contains many interesting judgments that have been of enduring interest to subsequent readers of Hume. The scholar of 18th century literature Donald Seibert judged it a "remarkable autobiography, even though it may lack the usual attractions of that genre. Anyone hankering for startling revelations or amusing anecdotes had better look elsewhere

Writings on religion Religious views Design argument Problem of miracles As historian of England Political theory Contributions to economic thought

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