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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Key Objectives

Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:

1.

Describe the fundamental elements of David Hume's epistemology.

2.

Explain why Hume's theory of knowledge undermines claims about physical objects, the self, and cause and effect.

3.

Show how Immanuel Kant's epistemology gets around Hume's skepticism about the world as experienced.

4.

Explain why Kant is still a skeptic when it comes to knowledge of a world beyond experience.

5.

Describe the basic features and main themes of G. W. F. Hegel's absolute idealism.

6.

Explain the main ways in which Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Freud, and Nietzsche each reacted to Hegelian metaphysics.








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