id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6744 David Hume - Wikipedia .html text/html 25480 4129 66 Hume's compatibilist theory of free will takes causal determinism as fully compatible with human freedom.[16] His views on philosophy of religion, including his rejection of miracles and the argument from design for God's existence, were especially controversial for their time. For over 60 years, Hume was the dominant interpreter of English history.[32]:120 He described his "love for literary fame" as his "ruling passion"[17] and judged his two late works, the so-called "first" and "second" enquiries, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, as his greatest literary and philosophical achievements.[17] He would ask of his contemporaries to judge him on the merits of the later texts alone, rather than on the more radical formulations of his early, youthful work, dismissing his philosophical debut as juvenilia: "A work which the Author had projected before he left College."[33] Despite Hume's protestations, a consensus exists today that his most important arguments and philosophically distinctive doctrines are found in the original form they take in the Treatise. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6744.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6744.txt