David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - Introduction to Philosophy

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you liked it -- they're not clueless, actually -- these are Freshmen, doing a decent job tackling tougher texts than many other profs give them for Intro classes

[@GregoryBSadler]

Perhaps so. . . I'd have to think about that more. I suspect that the cases are not really that similar, though

[@jamesroberts2282]

I’ve just finished reading this and have to say that it’s a pretty challenging read. Thankfully this video has really helped to clarify things and bring Hume’s ideas to life.

[@GregoryBSadler]

It's certainly written in an English quite different from our present one

[@GregoryBSadler]

started a brief excursion into David Hume this week. . .

[@mrpoig123]

Thanks for posting this. I've been reading David Hume these days. Very clear and concise lecture. Thank you

[@stevemcqueen3349]

Great video, David Hume is my favorite philosopher. You do a good job acting like your students are not totally clueless.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Those providers don't partner with people like me -- just institutions, and generally "prestige" ones. I do have some material set up in Learnist courses, and I'll be working with Curious and VideoClass in the coming months. But, those still aren't what I'd call the "full class experience"

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome -- glad the video was helpful

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yes, the more interesting economists -- and this goes for more than economics as well -- tend to be those who attempt to rethink basic concepts within the discipline, and thus end up doing some type of philosophical work

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome

[@jonathanhenderson7514]

Thanks for this, it was an excellent supplement to make sure I understood the reading.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad it was helpful for you

[@chels77034]

Im writing a paper on humes view of religion . Thank you so much for posting and clearing up some questions

[@chels77034]

Im writing a paper on humes. Thank you soo much for uploading youve made it more understandable

[@josephoprysko9769]

Do you have any MOOC courses (As opposed to just lectures), on Coursera, Udacity, or Edx? I have been taking a lot of MOOC courses lately, and I would enjoy taking a course like this.

[@jojoblazer777]

It's pretty interesting to think about this lecture in the context of software testing. I have a lot of fun watching your videos on anything related to how we know what we know, and why we think we know what we know. If you replaced God with the phrase "Software Under Test" and made a few more changes this lecture would be very apt. Hume would have been a great tester.

[@CaptainJasa]

A fantastic lecture on David Hume. Have you ever read the works of Ludwig von Mises he an economist. Reading his book Human action it reads more like a philosophic book than a book on economics his book explains the rational and irrational human behaviour when it comes to purchasing goods. His work reminds me of someone like Hume who was also an economist as well as a philosopher.

[@Darkrider6970]

Have you read the works of any contemporary christian philosophers/apologists such as Alvin Platinga, Richard Swinburne, JP Moreland, Alasdair MacIntyre, and William Lane Craig? Are any of them particularly 'good' philosophers? Any recommendations?

[@JamesPeach]

When inquiring the class on why Hume wrote his book not in first person or so but using multiple people (dialogue) you seem to think that because multiple people say something that makes it a better or stronger case. But I've heard that Hume wrote his book in dialogue form because it maskarade his true beliefs and it was ease to hide his true belief in a time that being secular or not believing in the "true" god was social suicide. P.S I got to the point where you also mentioned that writing in dialogue form to discuss a hard topic was used to make a good discussion. Which is true.

[@GregoryBSadler]

It's quite possible for an author to have more than just one motivation for the form of their works.

[@JamesPeach]

Gregory B. Sadler Yes, very true. Thanks for uploading these valuable videos, hopefully the students (future students or current, of course) in your class do their homework and contribute to the conversation - adequately.

[@ofaux3282]

‘Dialogues concerning natural religion’ was published posthumously I believe on Hume’s own instruction. I think it was intentional to also that the decision went against Philo, as any reader without bias and sufficient understanding of the arguments would nevertheless agree with Philo. If the text explicitly sided with Philo, it would have been socially unacceptable and likely black-listed altogether.

[@jojoblazer777]

As a side note, if one gets rid of ALL their experience and what everyone has told them about a piece of software. Let's take Microsoft's Windows OS for example. One can still piece together what the purpose of Windows is, how to use Windows, how to access files, run programs, how to make personalizing complex changes to the OS and even hack the OS. Look up "Ethopian kids hack tablet PCs with no training or instructions" on google. It's pretty interesting.

[@GregoryBSadler]

I've read Plantinga, Swinburne, and Craig -- I'm not particularly interested in or impressed by their work, by comparison to classic Christian thinkers. I'd rather read Peter Kreeft if I just want apologetics. MacIntyre is another matter altogether, but I don't consider him -- and he clearly doesn't either -- any sort of apologist. He's a historian of philosophy and a virtue ethicist of the first rank.

[@MrJMont21]

What’s your take on Plantinga’s book “God and other minds”?

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@MrJMont21 Don't care enough to have a take

[@colestockdale5616]

You're from Wisconsin! Seems right: Too much swagger to be from anotha state

[@GregoryBSadler]

I am indeed

[@admiralmurat2777]

Mozeltov

[@admiralmurat2777]

Land of the Ooooyaaas

[@alecgrant3628]

Scotland! Not England!

[@alecgrant3628]

In your first minute you situate the trialogue in England. This is not explicit in the text, and Hume was Scottish Enlightenment, par excellence. (Otherwise, good stuff)

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@alecgrant3628 I'll focus on the "otherwise" then

[@CaptainJasa]

A fantastic lecture on David Hume. Have you ever read the works of Ludwig von Mises he an economist. Reading his book Human action it reads more like a philosophic book than a book on economics his book explains the rational and irrational human behaviour when it comes to purchasing goods. His work reminds me of someone like Hume who was also an economist as well as a philosopher.