Hume's philosophy is quite bit less radical than it often seems. The section discussed here is a prime example. Sure, there's no experience of cause and effect, but that's ok. Custom steps in. And it's pretty much the same for all humanity, in Hume's view, since we all have the same human nature

@@GregoryBSadler Yes, custom steps in. There's a stabilizing and one can see how we can't get "beyond" in any real sense , so all is well (Wittgenstein). However, we're talking here of a condensed written text where the rug gets pulled and quickly gets replaced. It's a type of second-hand experience where you sit with a book and read deeply. (I can recall clearly the exact table where I sat in the library puzzling out his thought.) But what if the experience of realizing the fallacy of cause and effect is directly and spontaneously experienced? It can last for quite a bit longer than a paragraph and it can be a bit of a magic carpet ride, to say the least. From what I've seen, most people can do the whole swapping of cause and effect and maintain a type of stable sanity. (It's the thoughtful freshman in college smoking pot or dropping acid for the first time. Or the LoA/non-dual folks puzzling stuff out.) But to have the entire edifice evaporate in the midst of everyday life without custom quickly coming to the rescue? Yeah, that's a very different type of thing. I can't picture Hume's world not getting completely rocked by what he realized. Hume didn't read Hume. But it's refreshing, right, to grant a true respect for the singular experience(s) of people? To understand the tightrope act they performed to get across the valley? Breathes life into these old, dusty things--these books we read and we say "Ah, nice move there, mate, but what's the big deal? Onward to Kant!" Again, on a personal note, I had no idea what desire was birthed in me back in college and how that desire would one day be fulfilled. To answer that question, I was placed on a creative edge and had myself erased enough so that the flow of insight could consume the space where once there was a person without any guarantee she'd return. Impossible to capture in language, although Rumi does a fairly bang-up job. But when that particular ride was over (the experience of "reading philosophy backwards through life experience" is ongoing for me, thank God [quite literally]), I laughed and said in that bittersweetly understated way we do when we bring things back into digestible form, "well, now I understand Hume!" Which felt a bit like seeing a T-shirt that says "I went to Transcendence and all I got was this lousy Scotsman" :D

You’re welcome - and yes, I’ve got some Hume stuff I didn’t manage to get to last semester that needs some video discussion

Glad you enjoy the videos

Plenty more to come this summer

@@GregoryBSadler 👍

Glad to read it

You mean that the videos stay on KZfaq forever? Who knows what this medium will look like 20 years from now

Gregory B. Sadler hopefully yes

thanks!

Says right in the thumbnail what section this is about

Not sure what point you mean to make about being "discerning"

@@GregoryBSadler 'discerning - a mode of philosophical inquiry likely to uncover truths from subtle differentiation.

Yep. Still no idea what point you’re trying to make