Hume Burn the Books!

For this post im mainl going to be focussing on his wrap up of the enquiry on page 114. Throughout this piece Hume explains comfotably his stance and how he approaches life. In the first part he seperates reasonings between moral and a physical type. He uses this to create a field of understanding and making it comfortable to read, probably so that this would be more popular than his previous work witht the population. His tone creates a feeling that its okay to be unsure and question things on the middle ground. As long as you are not ignorant your good in humes 'book'. Im going to fast forward now to the quote, “If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”(114). This in my opinion discredits his previous feeling of its okay to be on the middle ground. As his comfotable conversation turns into a drastic call to arms. He becomes so critical of metaphysics and all that it stands for. This makes Hume unreliable and hard to believe or follow. In an almost convoluted fashion he switches his tone. I really liked his quote here though "Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man"(4).