A Critical Analysis of Hume's View on the Skepticism

Hume is an empiricist philosopher who sometimes calls himself a skeptical philosopher and sometimes opposes skepticism; Hence, presenting a coherent image of Hume's philosophy is one of commentators` concern. This paper attempts to provide a coherent outline of Hume's views on skepticism. Hume logically justifies skepticism, but for psychological reasons, it is unstable and temporary; For this reason, while defending skeptical arguments about the "contagion of error in any rational argument" and the "denial of the rationality of natural beliefs (eg, belief in causality, belief in external existence, and belief in the self), he defends the inevitability of these beliefs and tries to preserve these beliefs by ignoring skeptical doubts. Of course, this article makes it clear that Hume's skeptical stance is not free from flaws; both because the skeptical arguments in question are distorted and because his psychological approach is incapable of overcoming skeptical doubts; Therefore, Hume's skeptical position may not be taken as acceptable in many ways and cannot replace the rational and correct explanation of Muslim philosophers in the field.