Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism

by Peter Kreeft

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 2010

Overview

Peter Kreeft calls Hume the “most formidable, serious, difficult-to-refute skeptic in the history of human thought.” In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft challenges Hume’s ideas via a Socratic examination of human understanding in relation to Hume’s skepticism. Kreeft invites you to take part in the process of refuting Hume’s skeptical arguments, with the aid of Socrates. Based on a fictional dialogue between Socrates and Hume that takes place in the afterlife, this profound and witty book makes an entertaining and informative exploration of modern philosophy.

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Key Features

• Challenges Hume’s ideas via a Socratic examination of human understanding in relation to Hume’s skepticism
• Invites readers to take part in the process of refuting Hume’s skeptical arguments
• Presents a ficitional dialogue between Socrates and Hume that takes place in the afterlife

Contents

• Hume Introduced
• The Point of Departure
• Hume’s Relation to Locke
• Hume’s Premise: The Origin of All Ideas
• The Division of All Objects of Reason (Things Knowable) into “Relations of Ideas” and “Matters of Fact”
• The Critique of Causality
• The Mysterious Idea of Causal Connection
• Hume’s Explanation of Causal Reasoning by Custom or Habit
• Hume’s Emotive Morality
• Hume’s Critique of Miracles
• Hume’s Critiques of Christianity
• Hume’s Denial of the Self
• Hume’s Skepticism

Top Highlights

“reduction of all objects of human reason to ‘matters of fact’ and ‘relations of ideas’.” (Page 10)

“the data to the explanation, the complex to the simple, the rich variety of experience to simple universal formulas.” (Page 38)

“proposition’. The predicate of a synthetic proposition is not already contained in its subject.” (Page 89)

“second, your critique of the common notion that we can rightly reason by cause and effect.” (Page 82)

“your critique of Rationalism as dogmatic, and your alternative of semi-skepticism. Your” (Page 62)

Product Details

• Title: Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism
• Author: Peter Kreeft
• Series: Socrates Meets …
• Publisher: Ignatius
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Hume, David, 1711-1776 › Philosophical essays concerning human understanding; Socrates; Knowledge, Theory of
• ISBNs: 9781681494395, 1681494396
• Resource ID: LLS:SCRTSMTSHM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:50:44Z

About Peter Kreeft

Peter John Kreeft, Ph.D., (born 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King’s College, and author of numerous books as well as a popular writer on philosophy, Christian theology, and specifically Roman Catholic apologetics. He also formulated together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, “Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God.”