David Hume
- Jurist
- David Hume
- School
- Analytical Positivism
- Theory
- **Empiricism** and the **Is-Ought distinction** (Hume's Guillotine), which posits that no normative ('ought') conclusion can be derived from purely descriptive ('is') premises, and viewing justice as an artificial or conventional virtue.
- Quote
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
- Books
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
- Propounded
Is-Ought distinction (Hume's Guillotine), Empiricism, Justice as an artificial virtue
- Born
- 1711
- Died
- 1776
- Portrait
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