Humes Scepticism

Humes Scepticism

Why according to Hume, must Humans inability to fully understand Cause and Effect in the world result in scepticism? Explain Kant's position on the problem.

Through the process of this essay, I will attempt to explain the reasoning behind Hume's theory of causation and scepticism. I will then describe the thought of Kant on the topic.

The reason that Hume believes that human's inability to understand causation must result in scepticism can be seen through the following claim.

"Upon the whole, there appears not, throughout all nature, any one instance of connection which is conceivable by us. All events seem entirely loose and separate. One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seemed conjoined, but never connected. And as we can have no idea of any thing which never appeared to our outward sense or inward sentiment, the necessary conclusion seems to be that we have no idea of connection or force at all, and that these words are absolutely without meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasoning or common life". (Hume, 1737)

He asserts that we never see causal necessity, and therefore