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Hume on education

Abstract

Hume claims that education is ‘disclaimed by philosophy, as a fallacious ground of assent to any opinion’ (T 1.3.10.1) and that it is ‘never . . . recogniz’d by philosophers’ (T 1.3.9.19). He is usually taken to be referring here to indoctrination. I argue, however, that his main concern is with association and those philosophers who emphasize the epistemic dangers of the imagination. These include Locke, Hutcheson and Descartes, but not Hume himself. Hume praises education, highlighting its role in the formation of general rules, and in fostering social conditions that encourage the growth of knowledge and moral virtue.

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O'Brien, Dan

Oxford Brookes departments

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences\Department of History, Philosophy and Religion

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Year of publication: 2017
Date of RADAR deposit: 2017-05-09


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