David Hume's Of The Reason Of Animals

Of The Reason of Animals David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711. Hume went to school to study law but fell in love with philosophy. He eventually lost his faith and leaned towards skepticism. He was a larger man and was very popular in the social scene, he never married and died of cancer of the bowel in the year of the signing of the declaration of independence. Of the Reason of Animals is in section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. This is David Hume’s attempt to understand why we do things and how we understand. Hume continues a naturalist line in examining the reason of animals. Hume thinks that reason is something that is natural and people come by on their own. Then he continues, we use this to get by in and survive