Foundations of Hume’s Ideas

Hume challenged traditional philosophical beliefs in ways that shocked the readers of his day and have demanded the attention of philosophers ever since. Several classical philosophical problems are now permanently associated with his name, his analysis of causality, the problem of personal identity and the problem of induction. So, the twentieth century analytical philosophy can be said to start with the problems raised by Hume. In this article my aim is to analyses the foundations and method of Hume’s ideas and reflections of Hume’s thinking. Because if we want to understand Hume’s thinking we should clear about influence over Hume of other thinkers. Many thinkers directly influenced his views like Descartes, Nicholas Malebranche, George Berkeley, Pierre Bayle,  Cicero and John Locke. Modern analytic philosophy is essentially empirical. And this empiricism can well be said to be developments over Hume in a similar line. We can included A.J. Ayer, Russell, Wittgenstein , Gilbert Ryle and Srawson etc. in this list.