Experience & TikTok

Number each prompt response and embed the TikTok rather than posting a link.

  1. Find or create a TikTok that represents the Hume’s basic empiricist idea that we gain knowledge through experience. **Please do not choose a TikTok that simply explains Hume’s ideas. This is your job.**
  2. Share and explain one quote from the “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” that sums up the connection between the tiktok and “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.”
  3. Now share 1 quote from either Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy or the Descartes lesson video on Meditation 3 that best sums up Descartes’s final position on absolute certainty and doubt as it is different from Hume.
  4. Now, let’s suppose we are in a classroom at Pierce college and I have brought with me to class a monkey. What steps would you take to demonstrate to your skeptical classmates there is a monkey in the room based on Descartes’s philosophy?
  5. What steps would you take to demonstrate to your skeptical classmates there is a monkey in the room based on Hume’s’s philosophy?