Topic: David Hume

Dr. Moody references 18th-century skeptic David Hume to explain the difficulty of proving the immortality of the soul through standard reasoning. He agrees with Hume’s assessment that a "new species of logic" and new mental faculties are required to comprehend the afterlife. Moody suggests that the current logical frameworks of 2021 are insufficient for solving the mystery of what happens after death.

McMurtry defines the fundamental conflict of the modern epoch as the war between life capital and money capital. He critiques the philosophical foundations of modern economics, tracing the "rationality" of self-maximizing choice back to David Hume and its current application in American social science. This logic dictates that efficiency and productivity only mean lowering costs for money sequences, which justifies the dispossession of the working class and the starvation of labor as "rational" economic behavior.