Academic Skepticism in Hume and KantAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Monday 27 February 2023
Description
This book offers an unprecedented study of the influence of the skepticism of the New Platonic Academy on David Humes and Immanuel Kants critiques of metaphysics. By demonstrating how the skeptical teachings of the Academy affected these authors Enlightened attacks on traditional metaphysics, this book deepens and broadens the burgeoning scholarship on the role that the Ancients schools of skepticism played in the configuration of Modern skeptical outlooks. It bolsters the newfound recognition that we must reconsider the conventional view that the revival of Pyrrhonism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gave birth to Modern skepticism by incorporating the influence of Academic skepticism in the analysis. Giving a new impetus to this line of research, the author argues that Academic ideas and methods informed Humes and Kants critique of metaphysics in substantial and thus far unacknowledged ways. Specifically, she demonstrates the centrality of Academic skepticismto Humes epistemology and critique of religion through a detailed analysis of his theory of belief in the Treatise and the first Enquiry as well as of its application in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. Likewise, her analysis reveals how Kants anti-metaphysical stance, developed in the Transcendental Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason, contains many skeptical insights of Academic inspiration, bequeathed to him by Hume.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
27 Feb 2023
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
€128.69
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
26 Feb 2022
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
€128.69
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
03 Oct 2023
Architecture: residential and domestic buildings
€67.28
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
14 Apr 2023
Colonialism and imperialism
€146.25
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews