Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Imagination
In the second book Hume talks about imagination and how the human mind is an unlimited organ. Hume states that our imagination is merely the compounding of ideas. Hume comes up with two points to explain this idea. First he says that all complex ideas are merely compounded out of simple ideas and these simple ideas come from simple impressions (everyday things like human form and intelligence). Hume uses the example of God being a supremely good and intelligent being. We have the idea of goodness and intelligent and allowing them to have no limit allows us to imagine the being of God. Second Hume talks about how our imagination is limited to the impressions we are able to take in. So for example a person that is blind is not able to imagine color and a person that is deaf could not imagine sound.
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Imagination is endless and can be limitless but that depends on our mental limitations. The saying "Go big or go home" seems approrpiate here. "go big" for one person isn't the same idea for another. It is based on experiences. A homeless person's idea of "go big" may be to retain a job and a house in a humble community. That is considered big for them b/c they don't have it. For a rich person "go big" may be to travel the world. A homeless person mat not even be able to fathom this idea as possible. Therefore, they "go home". So imagination is different from person to person.
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