David Hume vs. Immanuel Kant
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
David Hume
1796 – 1864
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume followed John Locke in rejecting the existence of innate ideas, concluding that all human knowledge derives solely from experience; this places him amongst such empiricists as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Locke and George Berkeley.
"There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. That it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to ma…"
Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
German philosopher whose work on epistemology and ethics was transformative.
"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
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