Comparing Scot David Hume Vs. Immanuel Kant

During the 17th century there were 2 great philosophers who achieved great fame from their philosophical ideas. The two great philosophers during the 17th century are Scot David Hume and Immanuel Kant. David Hume was a British empiricists while Kant’s goal was to bridge the gap between rationalism and Empiricism. Kant was also influenced by Hume’s ideas of empiricism and he wanted add more ideas to it. In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting David Hume and Immanuel Kant’s philosophical ideas. I will do so by talking about the history of Kant and Hume, and looking at the differences between their ideas and their similarities. This will show how Kant’s idea were from the teachings of David Hume. David Hume was third of the Holy

In his fiftieth year he became a well-respected professor. Neighbors also set their clocks to when took his afternoon walks. He was trained in the rationalistic metaphysics of Christian Von Wolff, and undistinguished disciple of Leibniz. When Kant read Hume’s Enquiry, he found out that his ideas were being argued against by Hume. Kant adopted Hume’s idea of analytic or synthetic distinction as his tool for analysis. Kant wanted to respond to Hume’s critiques, he wanted to bridge the gap of between Rationalism and Empiricism. Kant had many similarities to Hume’s ideas because Kant agreed with many of Hume’s ideas. Kant agreed with Hume’s idea that all analytic propositions are a priori and thought that posteriori propositions are synthetic, however he disagreed with Hume’s tautological claim that all posterior is synthetic propositions and that all analytic are priori propositions. Kant believed that by showing the existence of such truths will help him refute Hume’s philosophy, common sense and science (Palmer, 193). Kant begins dividing the minds into 3 faculties: intuition, understanding, and reason. Kant wanted to demonstrate time and space were synthetic foundations of the faulty of perception. Intuition is basically the internal structures of space and time. In the idea of understanding, it allows us to

David Hume thinks that mortality cannot be produced by reason because the ideas and beliefs will not make act. Since mortality cannot be produced by reason then there are lack of belief and desire the need for action. Hume tries to explain how there is no way to predict true or false in mortality. Hume thinks that the feelings of people relative to the action, that is the only way that moral judgment possible. However for Kant he thinks that goodwill is the only source for mortality, it is rational and is the duty of the people. Kant also thinks that human is a rational being that has a will and that determines how the person acts according to their principles. The philosopher’s idea of mortality is a major difference between the two because they give off their reasons behind the philosophy of Mortality unlike Kant who had many similarities with other philosophical ideas by Hume. Some of the similarities that Hume and Kant had in common were the ideas that Kant used to help Kant argue against Hume. Many of Kant’s ideas were from Hume’s such as the a priori and the posteriori. Both David Hume and Immanuel Kant were also empiricist in the 17th