I'm enjoying the Hume readings. There are some modern psychology theories that are suspiciously similar to the things he says, and I'm wondering if his work isn't the basis for some of those theories. For example, there is a theory (can't remember what it's called), but if you're depressed, you can only remember being depressed. You can't remember times when you were happy. If you took a course when you were depressed, when you're not depressed, you won't remember much of the material, but the next time you're in that depressed state, the material comes back to your memory. This seems very similar to what Hume is saying. Also, the law of association seems to be another part of modern psychology, in that our mind seems to want to work toward similars. For example: "I have a red blouse just like that! Well, it's got different buttons, is long sleeved, and the collar is round, but other than that..." Our minds are constantly looking for connections, similarities, rather than focusing on the dissimilarities.
Very interesting. Especially since the reviewer called him smug and unintelligible.