This unit examines David Hume's reasons for being complacent in the face of death, as these are laid out in his suppressed essay of 1755, ‘Of the immortality of the soul’. More generally, they examine some of the shifts in attitude concerning death and religious belief that were taking place in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, through examination of this and other short essays. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a collection of open educational resources from The Open University. Published in ePub 2.0.1 format, some feature such as audio, video and linked PDF are not supported by all ePub readers.
The Open University
Cambridge University
BBC Radio 4
Remo, Jaxson, and Matthew
Loyal Books
Simone Pipkin
The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Ed Conroy
The Open University
Oxford University
Léonide Sanders
Sherman Lee
Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews
St. John's College
Kevin Winterburn
Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
Emmanuel Ukwueze
Matthew Peyer-Stensrud
Marshall Poe
mariam adegoroye
The Aristotelian Society
New Discourses
Global Scholar Stories
Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews
The Open University
ARG
ABC Radio
Oxford University
Loyal Books
The University of Edinburgh
Oxford University
Eugenia Zavaleta
Pop Bush
Cambridge University
None
Carlos Marte
Amber Cazzell
Zachary Davis
National Humanities Center
National Portrait Gallery, London
Philosophy News
John Doyle
The University of Queensland
Skylar Sevier
New Books Network
New Books Network
Loyal Books
Lilyanna Merchant
Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler
Loyal Books
Cambridge University
Oxford University
Friedrich Nietzsche Society
Loyal Books
Kingman
Philosophy Talk Starters
Flagg Taylor
Andre Davis
Loyal Books
The Open University
Meghan Botten
Gabe DeGraeve - Zach Nagy
KJ
None
Marshall Poe
Ralston College
Tobias
Jason & Brian
Teagan Phillips
IAI
TyMa Oliver
Santosh Patil
Delaney
Lauren Buisker
None
Seneca Learning
Luke Kwiatkowski
RAJANI RAO
University of New England
The Open University
Institute Art Gender Nature HGK FHNW in Basel
Fatihah Abdur-Rahman
Kieran Setiya
Oxford University
Nick, Graycen and Dainelle
Centre for Ethics
BBC Radio 4
The Words Liberate
The Open University
None
Shamaine Williams
The Community Church of New York
BBC
Emmanuel O. Adegbuyi
Shasha-Gay Facey
Emely Alvarez
Jessica and Leandro
Brad Harris, Historian