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(5pp) Our challenge in this discussion is to
determine the influence of Hume on Kant. Why would
Kant say that Hume had awakened him from "dogmatic
slumber?" And how did this awakening influence
Kant. These questions will be answered based upon
Kan'ts Prologomena for the Future of Metaphysics
(1787). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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based upon Kants Prologomena for the Future of Metaphysics (1787). "Dogmatic Slumber" This phrase has been retained in history, because supposedly , Kant was "awakened from his dogmatic slumber" by
reading Hume. If we were to use Humes logic Kant would only then have the sense, or the memory of "being awakened." Kant was not so much outraged,
or indignantly awakened by Hume, but rather is speaking of being mentally jarred or pushed into examining his own definition of reason, in reaction to disagreeing with Hume. In
other words, Kant is saying that he had accepted a definition without thinking it through clearly. And when he did begin to think through Humes idea, he discovered that
he did not agree with it - or he was "awakened" or made aware of his own internal dogma. via Hume If Kant had not deemed Hume of merit,
it is doubtful that he would have even bothered to have read his work. Instead he claims that Hume is "a great thinker," but adds that he was
"hasty and mistaken" in his argument (258), particularly in the area of cause and effect (causation). In the Introduction to the Prolegomena, Kant leans toward the subjective, as he
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by experience" (258), and is "altogether destructive of metaphysics." Because of his
skepticism about what was real and what was not, Hume reduced everything - things of the mind, and the mind, itself, as well as religion and science to a matter
of memories and impressions. Doesnt really seem to add too much fun to his life, does it? According to Paterson (2000), Hume declared that our knowledge was based
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