Re: Re: Hume & the Postmodern Grin without a Cat (was Re: pomois...

[JKSCHW@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/10/00 2:59:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx writes:

<< That's why I mentioned in the post that Hume backed off -- sensibly
 so -- from the most radical implications of his own epistemology
 (which brings "everything solid melts into air" to its extreme).  One
 can have beliefs that one can't justify by reason, and without those
 (unjustified) beliefs one can't have society (a line of reasoning
 often adopted by conservatives), or so thought Hume, I think. >>
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But a skeptical (or any other) epistemology has no necessary implications for
political philosophy. Neither does Hume's naturalistic "solution" to the
problem of induction imply a Oakeshottean appeal to the inarticulate wisdom
of the ages. --jks