The Consequences of Ideas — Season 1, Episode 23: Hume (Part 1)
Documentary • 24 min • 1 season, 35 episodes
Episode synopsis
It has happened countless times in your life. You woke up and the grass was wet from the rain the night before, or so you thought. How do know the rain caused the wetness on the grass? Perhaps it is just a coincidence that the grass happened to get wet at the same time the raindrop hit the grass. What reason do you have to connect those two events in a cause and effect relationship? With this in mind, Dr. Sproul teaches us David Hume's challenge to the relationship of cause and effect, and how that affects Christian belief.
About The Consequences of Ideas
To understand the culture in which we live, you need to be familiar with the ideas that have shaped it. In Ligonier's survey series, The Consequences of Ideas, R.C. Sproul traces the contours of Western philosophy throughout history and shows how our culture evolved to what it is today. From ancient Greek thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Christian philosophers such as Augustine, Anselm and Aquinas to the shapers of modern thought such as Hume, Kant and Nietzsche, R.C. demonstrates the consequences of each of these and other important thinkers' ideas on world events, theology, the fine arts and culture, as well as our everyday lives. Listen, and you will hear echoes of their ideas in your daily conversations—especially as you witness to unbelievers.