David Hume Rationalism

Empiricism and Rationalism are paramount philosophy developed in the 17th century when scientific fields made important discovering essentially in mechanic and astronomic. These two ideologies are likely the most famed and interesting of schools of philosophy that focus in the understanding of the origin of knowledge, or, epistemology. Indeed, theses advancements aroused questions on how do human beings acquire knowledge, and whether or not science was the source of people comprehension of reality. Among the popular philosophers of epistemology are for instance, David Hume the empiricist and Rene Descartes the rationalism. In this paper, I will strive to explain how David Hume is more convincing and why? In addition, I will explain my
He states in the book of “The Meditations” that “ I think that I am something. So that after having reflected well and carefully examined all things, we must come to the definite conclusion that this proposition: I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally conceive it. Cogito ergo sum” (I think that I am) (The Meditations.p, 9) which means that human beings know their minds more than physical objects. In order to support his arguments, he uses “a piece of wax example” to explain this scheme. According to Descartes view, physical objects can be comprehended by examining them with our mind. For instance, when observing a piece of wax, Descartes realizes that wax has distinctive sound, taste, size, color, feel, temperature, odor, color. (The Meditations, p.11) However, once the wax heated, it lost all sensory attributes. Therefore, the origin wax differs to the new substance. Descartes conclude, “From this I should conclude that I knew the wax by means of vision and not simply by the intuition of the mind. Unless by chance, I remember that, when looking from a window and saying I see men who pass in the street, I really do not see them, but infer that what I see is a man, just as I say that I see wax.) (The Meditations, p.12) Both philosophers David Hume and Rene Descartes have excellent arguments of their ideas. The fact is that both empiricism and rationalism are indivisible in human understanding. One cannot exist without another; experience synergy with reason. Even though Descartes beliefs that logic is the key to knowledge, contrary to Hume who beliefs that experience precedes reason, they both made an exceptional move in modern