Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment

Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment
Title Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author Ryu Susato
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 362
Release 2015-09-10
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0748699813

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Demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

Hume's Enlightenment Tract

Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Title Hume's Enlightenment Tract PDF eBook
Author Stephen Buckle
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 366
Release 2004-02-19
Genre History
ISBN 0199271143

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Contrary to Hume's wishes, 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' has long lived in the shadow of its predecessor 'A Treatise of Human Nature'. Stephen Buckle presents the 'Enquiry' in a fresh light.

The Testimony of Sense

The Testimony of Sense
Title The Testimony of Sense PDF eBook
Author Tim Milnes
Publisher
Pages 289
Release 2019
Genre History
ISBN 0198812736

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This book offers a new account of the relationship between empiricism and the essay in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Exploring topics such as trust, testimony, virtue, and language, it offers new perspectives on connections between philosophy and literature, empiricism and transcendentalism, and Enlightenment and Romanticism.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Title An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher e-artnow
Pages 121
Release 2019-04-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 8027303893

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"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."

Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment

Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
Title Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author Charles Bradford Bow
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 237
Release 2018
Genre History
ISBN 0198783906

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Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.

Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber

Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber
Title Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber PDF eBook
Author Abraham Anderson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 205
Release 2020-02-24
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0190096756

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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.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Title An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher
Pages 202
Release 1907
Genre Conduct of life
ISBN

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