HUME & KANT This research compares and contrast

David Hume was a philosopher and historian. He wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739, which was considered his most important work for psychology; he later changed the beginning of the Treatise into what was called An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Hume defined his investigation as the science of human nature. He believed that people were natural objects in the world of nature which could be studied by methods of natural science. He believed that the operations of mental life could be more than described and that principles upon which these operations are based could be determined. He stated that the law of association of ideas was the universal principle of human nature (Watson 201-202).

Hume agreed with Locke's idea regarding the compounding of simple ideas into complex ones; he developed the theory of association and made it more explicit. He agreed that the material world did not exist until it was perceived; he expanded on this concept and abolished the mind as a substance. The mind was observable only through perception; it was a flow of ideas, sensations, and memories (Schultz & Schultz 45).

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher whose work domi

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ree principles of association accounted for mental operations, and these are resemblance or similarity, contiguity in place or time, and causality. If people think of a wound, they also think of the pain that follows; this is an example of causality. Hume became aware that causality was not on the same level of operation as similarity and contiguity, and he then eliminated it from the list of association principles and reduced it to a special case of the two; he concluded that the relation of causality rested on the relations of similarity and space-time contiguity (Watson 202). Hume believed that the principle of connection between ideas is habit and that habit is the universal law of mind. All experiences are explained by habit. He concluded that even the soul was reduced to impressions and associations of impressions. What was termed the mind was only a bundle of sensations. This concept of mind continued for a long period and culminated in the structuralism of Wundt and Titchener (Watson 203-204). Kant believed that people perceive objects or they encounter mental states that seem to be composed of bits and pieces. These are the sensory elements that the British empiricists and associationists dealt with. He stated
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