How Hume Woke Kant From His Dogmatic Slumber

Professor Lee Braver explains how Hume's critique of a priori reasoning revealed that metaphysicians assumed without proof that the mind's logic mirrors external reality. 📺 Watch the full lecture:    • Kant Wakes from His Dogmatic Sleep — Desca...   From the course: From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of Science and the Death of God. Lee Braver leads a tour through four of the most influential philosophers in Western history, asking a single question: how do we know anything at all? Beginning with Descartes, who rebuilt knowledge from scratch, the course follows Hume's challenge to cause and effect, Kant's claim that our minds shape the world we experience, and Nietzsche's confrontation with a universe drained of meaning. Across seven lectures, this introductory course traces one unfolding argument about truth, knowledge, meaning, and human freedom, showing how each thinker built on and challenged those who came before. 📚 Watch the whole series:    • From Descartes to Nietzsche: The Birth of ...   Presented by Ergo, a nonprofit that films long-form philosophy lectures with leading scholars and publishes them online without ads or paywalls. Find more courses and learn more at https://ergo.org Connect with Ergo: Subscribe:    / @ergo_org   Instagram:   / ergo_org   LinkedIn:   / ergoorg