By Peter Kreeft
ISBN-10: 1587318334
ISBN-13: 9781587318337
This e-book is the sixth booklet in a chain of Socratic explorations of a few of the nice Books. The books during this sequence are meant to be brief, transparent, and non-technical, hence absolutely comprehensible by way of newbies. via such Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft introduces (or reports) the fundamental questions within the primary divisions of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, ethics, good judgment, and process.
In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft offers a Socratic exam of enquiry pertaining to human figuring out relating to the skepticism of Hume, posing questions that problem the strategies that Hume proposed. Kreeft states that Hume is the “most ambitious, critical, difficult-to-refute skeptic within the heritage of human thought.”
Kreeft invitations you to participate within the strategy of refuting Hume’s skeptical arguments, because of Socrates. in line with an imaginary discussion among Socrates and Hume that happens within the afterlife, this profound and witty e-book makes an pleasing and informative exploration of recent philosophy.
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