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Peter Kreeft calls Hume the “most formidable, serious, difficult-to-refute skeptic in the history of human thought.” In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft challenges Hume’s ideas via a Socratic examination of human understanding in relation to Hume’s skepticism. Kreeft invites you to take part in the process of refuting Hume’s skeptical arguments, with the aid of Socrates. Based on a fictional dialogue...

dreamed of in your philosophy.” You would say there is less. HUME: I cannot help coming to conclusions that are more skeptical than common sense. Common sense is naïve and credulous. SOCRATES: But I mean by “reductionism” not only your skeptical conclusions but above all your method. HUME: What do you fault about my method? SOCRATES: As I said, it seems highly rationalistic. HUME: And as I said, I am the enemy of the Rationalists! SOCRATES: As an epistemological theory, yes, but not as a method.
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