Kant, Hume, and the interruption of dogmatic slumber / Abraham Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Abraham, 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Hume, David, 1711-1776--Influence.

Hume, David.

God--Proof.

God.

Sufficient reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 180 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This work provides an examination of Hume's influence on Kant's philosophy, arguing that Hume inspired Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' not by challenging empirical knowledge, but by attacking metaphysics and the proofs of the existence of God. It posits that both Kant and Hume were primarily interested not in skepticism about science or ordinary experience, but in a question of much greater existential and political importance: whether the belief in God can be based on proof.

Contents:

Bibliographical note

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The state of the question

1. The objection of David Hume and the project of enlightenment

2. Defining The objection of David Hume

3. Hume's attack on the rationalist principle of sufficient reason in the Enquiry

Interpreting Hume on the causal principle: Treatise 1.3.3, :A letter from a gentleman, and Kant's German contemporaries

5. Hume's attack on the Impious Maxim as the Hidden Spine of the Critique

Afterword

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 25, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-009676-4

0-19-009677-2

0-19-009675-6