Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience

The concept of experience has two sides: it implies that knowledge is acquired through the senses, and it implies that knowledge is acquired over time. Different traditions of thought have emphasized either one or the other of these two aspects of experience, with epistemology gravitating toward an...

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Main Author: Ilya Bernstein
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2012-05-01
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/553
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spelling doaj-6cba314f132144a7bb855798d53f45182020-11-24T21:35:21ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662012-05-0141Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of ExperienceIlya Bernstein The concept of experience has two sides: it implies that knowledge is acquired through the senses, and it implies that knowledge is acquired over time. Different traditions of thought have emphasized either one or the other of these two aspects of experience, with epistemology gravitating toward an idea of experience as perception and political philosophy gravitating toward an idea of experience as repetition. In this paper, I argue that Hume's great innovation consisted in taking the notion of experience traditionally associated with political philosophy and applying it to epistemology. Meanwhile, Kant aimed his critique at the traditional epistemological notion of experience and thus failed to appreciate Hume's originality.   https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/553KantExperienceHume
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Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience
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title Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience
title_short Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience
title_full Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience
title_fullStr Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience
title_full_unstemmed Did Kant Appreciate Hume? Perception and Repetition as Separate Aspects of Experience
title_sort did kant appreciate hume? perception and repetition as separate aspects of experience
publisher Firenze University Press
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issn 2035-8466
publishDate 2012-05-01
description The concept of experience has two sides: it implies that knowledge is acquired through the senses, and it implies that knowledge is acquired over time. Different traditions of thought have emphasized either one or the other of these two aspects of experience, with epistemology gravitating toward an idea of experience as perception and political philosophy gravitating toward an idea of experience as repetition. In this paper, I argue that Hume's great innovation consisted in taking the notion of experience traditionally associated with political philosophy and applying it to epistemology. Meanwhile, Kant aimed his critique at the traditional epistemological notion of experience and thus failed to appreciate Hume's originality.  
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Experience
Hume
url https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/553
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