Friday, April 18, 2008
HUME: Sec. 9
Hume also talks about how discipline and education can have an effect of animals. When they are given rewards or punished they can be taught any action that is contrary to their natural instincts. It is experience that makes a dog become apprehensive of pain because their owner threatens to beat them. It is also experience which makes a dog answer to it's name when the owner calls them because the dog learned how to distinguish their names from anything else that is being said.
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I agree with you on this, Hume does say that and it is experience that teaches an animal especially a household one right from wrong then natural instinct. Chewing up furniture and eating shoes as a dog is not good behavior. From instinct they do not know that is bad behavior but if the dog gets punished it is learned.
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