David Hume was a complex man. Erasing his name is too simplistic a gesture | Kenan Malik

Taking the philosopher’s name off a tower ignores history and is no help to the present“Learn, Mr Hume, to prize the blessings of Liberty and Education, for… had you been born and bred a slave, your Genius, whatever you may think of it, would never have been heard of.”So wrote the members of the 18th-century Aberdeen Philosophical Society, one of the leading debating salons in Scotland, in response to an essay by the presiding genius of the Scottish Enlightenment, David