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10 pages in length. The writer discusses Hume's desparaging opinion of the others philosophers' beliefs in relation to existence, oneness and matter. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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1) According to Plato, reality is Forms or Essences that exist outside this universe and human persons exist there with them so as to participate in them, however, Hume does not
believe this to be so. Hume is merely stating what he believes to be true. Indeed, Plato had no more proof of his philosophy than did Hume, which
makes them equally bound to the limitations of opinion. That Humes position with regard to Forms and Essences reflects the notion that only one can exist in a basis
of human reality leads one to suggest that Hume was not a man who believed in anything that was not considered a tangible concept. This particular aspect is one
that the student may want to flesh out to a greater extent, inasmuch as it can be argued that just because something is not scientifically provable does not mean that
it is not possible as a viable principle. "It seems also evident that when men follow this blind and powerful instinct of nature, they always suppose the very images,
presented by the senses, to be the external objects, and never entertain any suspicion that the one are nothing but representations of the other" (Hume PG). A) But the process
of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1) the Forms are destroyed; and 2) human
persons exist only in this world, each one of which is nothing more than a sequence of instantaneously changing human bits and pieces, as Heraclitus and Sartre both hold vs.
Parmenides. When discussing alternate restriction on philosophical position, the student should consider the fundamental basis of both Hume and Platos principles as a means by which to ascertain a
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