I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will harken to me. Everyone keeps a distance, and dreads that storm that beats upon me from every side. A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume was a Scottish philosopher. Among the interesting features of Hume's empiricist philosophy are a revolutionary view of causality, the problem of induction, and the distinction between fact and value.
Hume advocates various forms of moderate or mitigated skepticism.
He was a relentless critic of metaphysics and religion. In the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume examines and largely refutes the argument from design upon which the natural religion of the British Royal Society was founded. After an early education at home enters Edinburg University where he begins the study of law but three years later turns from the study of law to pursue an intense independent study of his own devising. After an attack of hypocondria he visits France where, over the next three years, he works on his Treatise of Human Nature . 1739 January, the first two volumes of Treatise are published anonymously.