David Hume thought model
Scotland · 1711–1776
An empiricist philosopher who put his weight on experience, habit, feeling, and a good-humored skepticism.
Perspective
Reason is the servant of the passions; sound judgment means seeing through the workings of habit and feeling, then setting them in order.
Value model
Individual agency65
Rational inquiry70
Risk awareness40
Social conformity45
Self-overcoming15
Practicality80
Language skepticism70
Decision principles
- Confine your claims to what experience can actually support.
- Acknowledge what your feelings really want.
- Take the measure of how much habit is driving you.