Examined Hume Life How We Acquire Knowledge Out Of Experiences

Name: Course: Professor: Date: Hume The theory of knowledge is a key element in understanding human behavior because it stimulates critical reflection upon how we acquire knowledge out of experiences. Reflection enables human to develop a critical examination of their actions. Philosophers like Aristotle believed that all knowledge comes from experiences of the world; he further distinguished mere sensation or perception and experience (Jiang 6). According to Aristotle, our experience makes the mind to perceive the essence of the thing in a particular perception, therefore he believed in empiricism whereby knowledge primarily came from experience (Jiang 13). Modern Empiricism like David Hume also agreed with Aristotle, but further expanded the idea of acquiring knowledge by distinguishing human experience into impression and ideas. Hume believed that basic ideas are copies in our mind derived from the initial impression received from our senses (Jiang 17). The impression is derived from particular properties that are not mysterious substances; therefore individual perceptions majorly influence our actions. For Hume, these are the basic ideas and the matter of fact which is different from Aristotle's notion of experience (Jiang 18). Hume argued that by connecting various perceptions into a unified understanding of particular substance come from the mind and human mind sees perception differently from other bundles of thought. People tend to see the world as made up of objects with properties, however, the process only happens in the mind. Other truths beyond simple ideas are made from the idea arising out of the habits of our mind, which represent the logical relation of ideas (Jiang 19). Hume believed in morality, claiming that the basic attitudes that we take towards the matter of fact is either one of approbation or disapprobation. If only an idea is entertained in the mind, it arouses emotions in us that are why our actions are determined by how we appropriate ideas, which forms the realm of morality (Jiang 19). Sartre's play No Exit is modern morality plays about three characters who dies and are transported to hell. Instead of finding eternal fire, they find a comfortable room with the three of them giving each other company (Sartre 115). The idea behind the play is a plea for the evolvement of true human morality. The story calls for self-examination of individual and assumption of an attitude of moral responsibility toward once actions and his thoughts (Sartre 202). Ted Hughes translation of Oretiea is an example of Aeschylus tragic vision, but gives a different motive for Oreste's action (Hughes 114). The Oresteia's three stories of Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides talks about the death of King Agamemnon who was killed by his wife Clytemnestra. His son Orestes is commanded to avenge the death of his father by killing his mother. He later faces the wrath of Furies and the judgment of the court of Athens (Hughes 118). The motivation of Orestes in Cheoephori is majorly about morals. The setting of both Choephori and the Eumenid...