Download e-book for kindle: Socrates Meets Hume by Peter Kreeft

By Peter Kreeft

This ebook is the sixth publication in a chain of Socratic explorations of a few of the good Books. The books during this sequence are meant to be brief, transparent, and non-technical, hence absolutely comprehensible via rookies. via such Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft introduces (or stories) the elemental questions within the basic divisions of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, ethics, common sense, and approach.

In Socrates Meets Hume, Kreeft provides a Socratic exam of enquiry pertaining to human figuring out when it comes to the skepticism of Hume, posing questions that problem the ideas that Hume proposed. Kreeft states that Hume is the “most bold, critical, difficult-to-refute skeptic within the background of human thought.”

Kreeft invitations you to participate within the strategy of refuting Hume’s skeptical arguments, by using Socrates. in line with an imaginary discussion among Socrates and Hume that happens within the afterlife, this profound and witty e-book makes an exciting and informative exploration of contemporary philosophy.

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