(See related pages)
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. |