{"product_id":"the-skeptical-roots-of-critique-humes-attack-on-theology-and-the-origin-of-kants-antinomy-9780197684009","title":"The Skeptical Roots of Critique: Hume's Attack on Theology and the Origin of Kant's Antinomy","description":"\"It was the objection of David Hume,\" Kant says, \"that first interrupted my dogmatic slumber;\" \"it was the fourfold Antinomy,\" he later says, \"that first woke me from dogmatic slumber.\" The first statement has been taken to mean that the \u003cem\u003eCritique of Pure Reason \u003c\/em\u003eis a refutation of Hume's skepticism. The Antinomy, however, like ancient skepticism, uses skeptical method to attack dogmatism. Is the \u003cem\u003eCritique \u003c\/em\u003ea refutation of skepticism or its heir? In \u003cem\u003eThe Skeptical Roots of Critique\u003c\/em\u003e, Abraham Anderson shows that Kant's \u003cem\u003eCritique of Pure Reason \u003c\/em\u003eis the heir to Hume's skepticism about metaphysics. In showing that the Antinomy flows from Hume's skepticism, this work connects Kant with the skeptical tradition reaching back to the ancients. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his \u003cem\u003eEnquiry\u003c\/em\u003e, Hume hints that both Samuel Clarke's theism and the dogmatic materialism he seeks to refute are underwritten by the rationalist causal principle that nothing comes from nothing, and that the clash between the two issues in a skeptical antithetic. In his \u003cem\u003eÉmile\u003c\/em\u003e, Rousseau too saw Clarke's refutation as issuing in an antithetic. These works inspired the first version of Kant's Antinomy, the \u003cem\u003eDreams of a Spirit Seer\u003c\/em\u003e; fifteen years later, Hume's \u003cem\u003eDialogues \u003c\/em\u003einspired the mature Antinomy of the \u003cem\u003eCritique\u003c\/em\u003e. Like Hume's \u003cem\u003eEnquiry \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eDialogues \u003c\/em\u003eand Rousseau's \u003cem\u003eÉmile\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eCritique \u003c\/em\u003eis part of the battle for Enlightenment, the struggle against the 'despotic' reign of theological dogmatism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbraham Anderson \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. He held graduate fellowships at the ?cole normale sup?rieure (rue d'Ulm) and the University of Munich. He has also taught at the University of New Mexico, the Universidad Aut?noma de M?xico, St. John's College (Santa Fe) and the American University in Cairo. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Treatise of the Three Impostors and the Problem of Enlightenment \u003c\/em\u003eand of \u003cem\u003eKant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869448900882,"sku":"9780197684009","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53b7aaf7-7bee-48bc-8f55-56472c8a3c3c.jpg?v=1737758252","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-skeptical-roots-of-critique-humes-attack-on-theology-and-the-origin-of-kants-antinomy-9780197684009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}