I’m reading == s l o w l y == Joyce’s ”Ulysses”, having never done such afore; and it’s time: time to catch up on all those texts of the Western Canon I’ve missed in life.  This reading is slow because of the Stream of Consciousness and the symbolism throughout the text.  I actually have […] Continue reading →

Okay. So now what was Hume trying to say? First, the backdrop to put him into perspective: He was one of the three Big British Empiricists (of Locke, Berkley, and Hume), and of that historically nomenclatured movement: The Scottish Enlightenment (of which consisted of Adam and Robert Ferguson, Adam Smith, Hume, Francis Hutcheson, James Mill, […] Continue reading →