LEADER 03356nam 22004935 450 001 9910255341903321 005 20230810190330.0 010 $a3-319-43794-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-43794-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000866396 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-43794-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4694143 035 $a(PPN)270729534 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000866396 100 $a20160920d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDavid Hume, Sceptic /$fby Zuzana Parusniková 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 126 p.) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4556 311 $a3-319-43792-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end each chapters and index. 327 $aChapter 1: The Cartesian Roots of Hume?s Scepticism -- Chapter 2: The Empiricist Roots of Hume?s Scepticism -- Chapter 3: The Pyrrhonian Roots of Hume?s Scepticism -- Chapter 4: The Roles of Philosophy -- Chapter 5: Epilogue: The Two Faces of Hume. 330 $aThis book studies Hume?s scepticism and its roots, context, and role in the philosopher?s life. It relates how Hume wrote his philosophy in a time of tumult, as the millennia-old metaphysical tradition that placed humans and their cognitive abilities in an ontological framework collapsed and gave way to one that placed the autonomy of the individual in its center. It then discusses the birth of modernity that Descartes inaugurated and Kant completed with his Copernican revolution that moved philosophy from Being to the Self. It shows how modernity gave rise to a new kind of scepticism, involving doubt not just about the adequacy of our knowledge but about the very existence of a world independent of the self. The book then examines how Hume faced the sceptical implications and how his empiricism added yet another sceptical theme with the main question being how argument can legitimize key concepts of human understanding instinctively used in making sense of our perceptions. Placing it firmly in a historical context, the book shows how Hume was influenced by Pyrrhonian scepticism and how this becomes clear in Hume?s acceptance of the weakness of reason and in his emphasis on the practical role of philosophy. As the book argues, rather than serving as the foundation of science, in Hume?s hand, philosophy became a guide to a joyful, happy life, to a documentary of common life and to moderately educated, entertaining conversation. This way Hume stands in strong opposition to the (early) modern mainstream. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4556 606 $aPhilosophy$xHistory 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aHistory of Philosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Science 615 0$aPhilosophy$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aHistory of Philosophy. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 676 $a180-190 700 $aParusniková$b Zuzana$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0908217 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255341903321 996 $aDavid Hume, Sceptic$92519298 997 $aUNINA