The course offers an overview of Western Philosophy from its beginning to today via a close study of the ground-breaking writings of Descartes and Hume. We will use these writings as a reference point, and will digress into the whole history of philosophy on the basis of what they bring up. We study how the questions Descartes and Hume raise, and the ideas and arguments they offered, have been anticipated by and discussed by generations of philosophers down to the present day. Among questions discussed are: “What can we know?” “What ought we do?” and “What can we hope?” (and a plethora of more detailed questions that can be grouped under these general questions).