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Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber (Hardcover)
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Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber (Hardcover)
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Kant once famously declared in the Prolegomena that "it was the
objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my
dogmatic slumber." Abraham Anderson here offers an interpretation
of this utterance, arguing that Hume roused Kant not (as has often
been thought) by challenging the principle that "every event has a
cause" which governs experience, but rather by attacking the
principle of sufficient reason, the basis of both rationalist
metaphysics and the cosmological proof of the existence of God.
This suggestion, Anderson proposes, allows us to reconcile Kant's
declaration with his later assertion that it was the Antinomy of
pure reason - the clash of opposing theses - that first woke him
from dogmatic slumber. For the Antinomy suspends the dogmatic
principle of sufficient reason; in doing so, Anderson proposes, it
is extending Hume's attack on that principle. This reading of Kant
also explains why Kant speaks of "the objection of David Hume"
after mentioning Hume's attack on metaphysics. The "objection" that
Kant has in mind, Anderson argues, is a challenge to metaphysics,
rather than to the foundations of empirical knowledge.
Consequently, Anderson's analysis issues a new view of Hume
himself-as primarily interested, not in the foundations of
experience, but in the problem of metaphysics and theology. It
thereby positions Kant and Hume as champions of the Enlightenment
in its struggle with superstition. Shedding new light on the
connection between two of the most influential figures in the
history of philosophy, this volume will appeal not only to scholars
of Kant, Hume, and early modern philosophy, but to philosophers and
students interested in the history of philosophy and metaphysics
generally.
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