Hume never married and dedicated his whole life to history and philosophy studies, which finally turned into a sex-volume “History of England”, famous for its unusual psychological direction “A Treatise of Human Nature” and more than ten books and essays on moral theory (Stanford Encyclopedia, 2009).

As a descendant of the Scottish bourgeoisie, the family of advocate Joseph Home (Hume in English pronunciation) and Katherine Lady Falconer, he received a great education, being enrolled to the University of Edinburgh at the age of twelve for extraordinary abilities and academic performance. Life and legacy of David Humeĭavid Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish thinker and philosopher. The present paper is intended to discuss the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. At the same time, rationalism dominated contemporary philosophy and literature, so the Age of Enlightenment was marked with the formulation of moral theories, principles of governance and human rights and freedoms, according to which Europe and North America have been living till the present day (wsu.edu, 2009). The rapid progress of humanities in that period was close-knit with economic and technological developments across the whole Europe and North America, in particular, the invention of the internal combustion engine, formation of the new economic class known as bourgeoisie, or self-made people who enriched financially not on the basis of the noble origin, but merely as a result on the entrepreneurial talent in parallel with the improvement of the populations’ well-being, Western economies were optimized and rationalized (wsu.edu, 2009). The Age of Enlightenment is a term used to describe the development of Western philosophy, literature and art in the 17-18 th centuries.

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