Hume's Central Argument Of Determinism

The central argument of Hume’s paper is that determinism is obviously the root of all human actions. Hume says that all our actions are pre-determined due to causes and necessity. The human brain is structured to process two consecutive events as always in relation with each other. He is an empiricist and he argues that, this knowledge of causation is due to experiences. He makes very interesting and contradictory arguments to his own arguments. He argues that whatever is there in the social setup of our lives was always there; later on with this argument as root, he puts forth his argument on the “chief use” of history. Hume argues that the humanity was and is the same at all times and places. He states “Its chief use is only to discover the
I think that man should be concerned about past as the past, as present is nothing but a part of the present. History is there to create awareness about the difference; differences between our age and the previous ages. A closer view at history enables one to gain knowledge on how we got from “then” to “now”. And also memory is unreliable; I believe that the past represented by history is the ideal past. History is also necessary for the representation of marginalized people. History also becomes dangerous in many people’s lives when taken from a wrong perspective. When history is viewed from an inspirational perspective then it might end up as a barrier to rise of new and contemporary art forms as it will be a forceful act of trying not to deviate from the past. It also makes us feel superior about ourselves which limits the level of efficiency and productivity one can’t reach. Rejection of past will lead to rejection of the fact that we are also part of the past and it is past that gave us this life and present. The above mentioned reasons/arguments are to falsify his statement on the “chief use” of history and sheds some light on how to too much of involvement in history can end up being
From a deterministic point of view, history will be a chronological set of events that repeat from time to time (as Hume argues), but I think that some events will not or is not capable of repeating itself neither at present nor in the future; for example bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think that history is not something that humanity has the power to determine the course of actions; one’s actions are highly influenced by the circumstances created by the past actions and its effects. Now that is something that a determinist would say to prove one’s support for the idea that everything is predetermined and history repeats itself and does nothing other than