David Hume Skepticism Analysis

In the philosophical skepticism according to philosophers such as Plato, Rene Descartes, and David Hume they differentiate in their different skepticisms. Skepticism is doubting one-self knowledge while also trying to justify their own beliefs and reasons. Based on “The Apology: Defense of Socrates”, Socrates makes is at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods and inventing new forms of his own beliefs and questioning everyone to find the truth. As for Rene Descartes based on his “Meditations on First Philosophy” he has the belief of questioning his doubt and has come to the point where he decided to drop all previous childhood knowledge and in order to believe something he must have firm foundations for it to be indubitably …show more content…
In Plato’s view it could be inferred that he is a skeptic of ones own knowledge. As in “The Apology” Socrates is portrayed as a wise man questioning everything and implying he knows that he doesn't know everything, Plato portrays such paradox of being wise of knowing that he does not know nothing. In Descartes view he notes to doubt any particular bit of apparent sensory knowledge. The aspects of the senses in regard to any particular judgement about the external world may turn out to be wrong. So it seems that Descartes doubts and desires come from an understanding of lacking something, and considers himself imperfect as to god. While he can doubt the existence of other things, he cannot doubt the existence of god, since he has more visible perceptions of god than to his own doubts and desires, which makes the idea of god more true than anything else. And as for Hume’s view , his claim is that we know of the existence of bodies through our senses, by sight and feeling. Hume also infers that our beliefs in the continued and distinct existence of bodies might be one of the three components senses, reason, and imagination. Hume begins to question whether the senses are the causes of these beliefs and if their continued existence is concerned and beliefs are …show more content…
In accordance to Plato there is really not much exact facts to imply with god in the text. But As in “The Apology” The Delphic Oracle could be his inference to God, when Socrates goes around questioning people to find out who is the wisest person, it was due to the fact that Socrates wanted to test the saying of god, when they told him he is the most wise. As for Descartes he is certain that if god exist he can doubt anything else but god. In (Pg.166) , Descartes recalls God as a great powerful being in which he cannot doubt his existence.As long as god exist he could question everything else but him. Although Hume suggests that world operates on cause and effect and therefore the first cause is god in which everything goes on about. In all summation it is plausible and understandable in the way Plato,Descartes, and Hume have different attitudes and methods toward skepticism. Many factors dealing from reasons, cause,effect,god and much more can influence a way a philosopher is skeptical towards many intimate topics dealing with our mind thinking. Almost all philosophical skepticism is about doubting everything but only to justify contradictions towards everything we