Episode #056 ... Kant pt. 1 - An Introduction to the Introduction
Philosophize This!
Stephen West
4.8 • 16.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we begin our discussion of Immanuel Kant. We first examine the historical context Kant was born into and consider the challenges philosophy was faced with, thanks to David Hume. We also discuss the change in the way humans were beginning to look at the universe during Kant’s time. Finally, we hear what Kant has to say about whether or not we can know anything beyond “I think, therefore I am.” All this and more on the latest episode of Philosophize This!
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| 0:38.7 | So I want to begin the show today by talking about something that Massimo Pigliucci, in |
| 0:43.0 | my opinion, brilliantly, said in the interview that we did with him last episode. |
| 0:47.6 | More specifically, I guess, when I asked him the question, what did David Hume think that |
| 0:52.2 | he was answering with his work? |
| 0:54.7 | What questions faced him and his generation? |
| 0:57.0 | What did he think he was setting out to comment on with all of his subsequent work? |
| 1:00.3 | Massimo said that David Hume would have thought that he was rebuilding philosophy from the |
| 1:05.6 | ground up. |
| 1:07.4 | But why would David Hume feel this way? |
| 1:09.2 | I mean, it's kind of weird, I don't know. |
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