![]() The empiricists, on the other hand, had argued that all of our knowledge must be firmly grounded in experience This guarantees the indubitability of our knowledge but leaves serious questions about its practical content. The rationalists had tried to show that we can understand the world by careful use of reason Kant's aim was to move beyond the traditional dichotomy between rationalism and empiricism. This central idea became the basis for his life-long project of developing a critical philosophy that could withstand them. Having appreciated the full force of such skeptical arguments, Kant supposed that the only adequate response would beĪ "Copernican Revolution" in philosophy, a recognition that the appearance of the external world depends in some measure upon the position and movement of its observers. Wolff, Kant said, it was a careful reading ofĭavid Hume that "interrupted my dogmatic slumbers and gave my investigations in the field of speculative philosophy a quite new direction." Long after his thorough indoctrination into the quasi-scholastic German appreciation of the metaphysical systems of ![]() Next we turn to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a watershed figure who forever altered the course of philosophical thinking in the Western tradition. ![]()
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