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David Hume
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Ha Khanh Pham – 1018673; Dang Khoa Nguyen (Nate) – 1021635; Sujoung – 1021091; Bunny Wong -1019507
International College of Management, Sydney
3/28/2013
2013
Ha Khanh Pham – 1018673; Dang Khoa Nguyen (Nate) – 1021635; Sujoung – 1021091; Bunny Wong -1019507
International College of Management, Sydney
3/28/2013

What are the consequences of David Hume's view on induction and self for managers?

What are the consequences of David Hume's view on induction and self for managers?

David Hume was born in Scotland in 1711. He is known as a philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, especially for advocating empiricism and skepticism. He had strongly influenced in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. (David Hume, n.d., para. 3). He is seen as one of the greatest skeptics in the history of philosophy. He believes that human know nothing except their experience, and experience is based on the notion of objective. Moreover, in David Hume point of view, the law of causality cannot be explained and exist, but only experience is used to explain for the happening of something. Hume accepts the premises of Locke and Berkeley (knowledge comes from experience) but wants to rescue science from Empiricism’s unavoidable conclusion: knowledge of the external world is impossible. This essay will first explain the theory of David Hume which is about the Sceptical. Then the consequences of David Hume's view on induction for managers will be also discussed. Lastly, his point of view on self for managers will be argued clearly.
David Hume said: “Sceptical doubt both with respect to reason and the senses, is a malady, which can never be radically cured, but must return upon us every moment, however we may chase it away” (Spillance, 2007, p217). David Hume against the existent of innate idea and stated that human could only learn knowledge from what they

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