Impressions and Ideas: Concept, Distinction between Impressions and Ideas

• David Hume is regarded as the most empirical philosopher in the history of Western Philosophy.
• His theory of moral religion is treated as highly significant in contemporary philosophy.
• His criticism of the ontological arguments and the teleological arguments for the existence of God is certainly more lucid and devastating than that of Kant՚s criticism of rational theology.
• Some of his most significant works are;
  • A Treatise of Human Nature
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
  • An Enquiry concernin…

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Impressions and Ideas, the Concept of Reason

Impressions and Ideas

• Ideas again, may appear in the form of memory or imagination.
• The distinction between the memorial and the imaginal ideas is not well marked.
• To a certain extent memorial ideas are strong and lively.
• On the other hand, the imaginal ideas are weak and faint.
• Secondly, in imagination we are freer to produce complex ideas, though not so much the simple ones which are tied to their original impressions.
• But, memory is tied down to their corresponding impressions.
• In d…

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