HJUMOVO SHVATANJE ODNOSA IZMEĐU SKEPTICIZMA I FILOZOFIJE
HUME’S UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCEPTICISM AND PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: In this article I explore how Hume’s views on the relationship between scepticism and philosophy developed and matured throughout his philosophical career. Hume’s first work, A Treatise of Human Nature, leaves open the question of why would anyone pursue philosophy in light of the discovery that sceptical arguments are irrefutable. What I aim to show is that, although Hume’s attitude to scepticism and his own sceptical position remain essentially unchanged over the years, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, along with a couple of his minor writings, contain interesting changes, additions and improvements to his thinking about the way scepticism can inform our philosophical enquiries. Only in his last work Hume unambiguously claims that scepticism does have a positive and lasting influence on our philosophising, and this influence consists in intelectual modesty and subject-matter limitations whithin philosophical investigations.

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