Worksheet

1. What was Thomas Hobbes' view of metaphysics?

2. What was the Leviathan?

3. Explain the state of nature and how it is the basis of all civil society.

4. How is Hobbes an empiricist?

5. What is the "social contract"? How and why does it work?

6. What are three arguments against rationalism?

7. What are three arguments against empiricism?

8. How does David Hume's philosophy make us confront skepticism?

a. What is skepticism?

b. Why is skepticism a philosophical and scientific concern?

9. Explain Hume's position on Cause and Effect.

10. How does Hume understand the nature of perception?

11. What is "Hume's Fork"?

12. What was Hume's view of ethics?

13. What is the difference between impressions and ideas?

14. What is the problem of induction?

15. What is Hume's theory of the self?