Abraham Anderson

The Skeptical Roots of Critique

Hume's Attack on Theology and the Origin of Kant's Antinomy

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Skeptical Roots of Critique, Abraham Anderson shows that Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the heir to Hume's skepticism about metaphysics. In showing that Kant's Antinomy flows from Hume's skepticism, this work connects Kant with the skeptical tradition reaching back to the ancients. Like Hume's Enquiry and Dialogues and Rousseau's Émile, the Critique is part of the battle for Enlightenment, the struggle against the 'despotic' reign of theological dogmatism. The victory of philosophy has led us to forget there ever was such a battle; Anderson aims to bring it to life by exploring the growth of the Critique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197684009
• ISBN-10: 0197684009
• Artikelnr.: 70014845

Autorenporträt

Abraham Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. He held graduate fellowships at the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm) and the University of Munich. He has also taught at the University of New Mexico, the Universidad Autónoma de México, St. John's College (Santa Fe) and the American University in Cairo. He is the author of The Treatise of the Three Impostors and the Problem of Enlightenment and of Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber.

Inhaltsangabe

* Bibliographical Note
* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: The State of the Question
* 1. Awakening from Dogmatic Slumber: Sextus, Hume, and the Roots of
Transcendental Idealism
* 2. The Impact of the Dialogues
* 3. Skeptical Method in the Discipline and the Antinomy: The Debt to
the Dialogues
* 4. Rousseau, Hume, and the Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
* 5. The Logik Blomberg on Skeptical Method and Kant's Reading of the
Enquiry
* 6. The Philosopher and the Common Understanding: Beattie vs. Hume,
and the First Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber in the Antinomy
* 7. "That impious maxim of the ancient philosophy"
* 8. "All the philosophers of antiquity, with the sole exception of the
Epicurean School": Clarke, Bayle, and Hume on the creation of matter
and the roots of the Antinomy
* 9. Hume and Clarke in the Beweisgrund
* 10. "If, for instance, I at this moment arise from my chair":
Clarke's Demonstration and the Antinomy
* Afterword
* Bibliography
* Index