David Hume's comprehensive philosophical system applying Newtonian method to human nature, covering the understanding (belief, causation), the passions, and morals.
Causation is custom, not necessary connection; the self is a bundle of perceptions; reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions; moral judgments express sentiments.
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