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Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

SOCRATES: So if the predicate is already contained in the subject, or logically implied by the subject, the proposition fits into your class of “relations of ideas”. HUME: Correct. SOCRATES: That is what Kant will call “analytic propositions”. HUME: Who is Kant? SOCRATES: A very famous and influential philosopher who will come after you. He was very deeply influenced by you. He will say that you “woke him from his dogmatic slumber”. And your second kind of proposition, which you call a “matter of
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