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Dialectic Spiritualism | VI British Empiricism | David Hume (1711-1776)

Hayagriva dasa: Abstract objects, relations, space, time, and matter are all considered by Hume to be mind-dependent perceptions. For him, perceptions or impressions are all there is. He rejected revealed religion, which he considered dogmatic, and accepted “natural religion” instead, a religion wherein the existence of God can be proved or even shown to be […]

Dialectic Spiritualism | VI British Empiricism | John Locke (1632-1704)

Hayagriva dasa: In Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke writes: “This argument of universal consent, which is made use of to prove innate principles, seems to me a demonstration that there are none such because there are none to which all mankind give a universal con­sent.” That is, it cannot be argued that all people have […]

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