Tour Scotland Photograph David Hume Statue Royal Mile Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of the statue of David Hume on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. On a grey, rainy afternoon someone had added some colour to the bronze atatue of David Hume. David Home was the second of two sons born to Joseph Home of Ninewells, an advocate, and his wife Katherine, née Falconer. He was born on 26 April 1711 in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh. Hume's father died when he was a child, just after the author's second birthday, and he was raised by his mother, who never re-married. He changed the spelling of his name in 1734, because of the fact that his surname Home, pronounced Hume, was not known in England. Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells in Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century. He became a famous Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.



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