Knowledge, reason, and taste: Kant's response to Hume
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Main Author: Guyer, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press ©2008
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index
Common sense and the varieties of skepticism -- Causation -- Cause, object, and self -- Reason, desire, and action -- Systematicity, taste, and purpose
Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reason, and Taste, renowned Kant scholar Paul Guyer challenges both of these views. He argues that Kant's entire philosophy--including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his metaphys
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 267 pages)
ISBN:0691134391
1400824478
9780691134390
9781400824472

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