The Skeptical Roots of Critique
Hume's Attack on Theology and the Origin of Kant's Antinomy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 March 2025
- ISBN 9780197684009
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 217x149x22 mm
- Weight 322 g
- Language English 698
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
"It was the objection of David Hume," Kant wrote, "that first [. . .] interrupted my dogmatic slumber"; "it was the fourfold Antinomy [. . .]", he wrote later, "that first woke me from dogmatic slumber." How can Kant have been woken both by Hume and by the Antinomy? In The Skeptical Roots of Critique, Abraham Anderson solves this problem by showing that the Antinomy was inspired by Hume's skepticism, whose primary target was metaphysics and especially theology. The Critique is not the refutation of that skepticism, but "the execution of Hume's problem in its broadest possible elaboration." In showing that the Antinomy flows from Hume, this work connects Kant with the skeptical tradition, and particularly with the antitheological skepticism of Hume's master Bayle. Like Hume's Enquiry and Dialogues, the Critique is part of the battle for Enlightenment, the struggle against the "despotic" reign of theological dogmatism.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
