David Humes and Immanel Kant?

Question

I have an exam coming up soon on David Humes and Immanuel Kant:

The works are:

1.Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"

2. Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals" (Only first two chapters)

Please direct me to any good studying sites that will hep me stdy for my exam. Thanok you in advance for those who respond.

Answer 1

Check out the stanford university website. They have good resources there. Just try typing also those titles in the search box of yahoo or google and for sure commentaries will appear. It seems to me that you are dealing with philosophical anthropology as well as morals. Anyway, one imporatnt point to remember on David Hume is that his idea about human acts are generally motivated by pain and pleasure principle, that is, he acts because of emotions and the instinct for survival and that man is merely a material reality without any soul at all. Concerning Kant, the basic principle on is morality is the idea that moral laws should be based on pure reason alone of which he contradicts Hume's point on human acts. For Kant, anything that is based on experience (or which emotion is included) cannot be universalized and therefore not applicable to law for must always be applicable universally. For example, if I say that the law of the land is to allow stealing of cars, chaos is surely to ensue. But as it is not allowed, then there is relatively peace concerning that matter. Aside from that, it is not only applied in Makati or Manila but to the whole world. Human experiences are particular. Perhaps now your are one with the accident that happened between between Jasmine and Travis in  "Sana'y maulit muli," or excited for Bruce leaving the big brother house but later on, after all those shows end, the emotional experiences will go with them. Although Kant's categorical imperative in which he posits as foundation for morality are empty maxims. It does not tell one what to do but rather, what not to do. Nonetheless, Kant was still considered as one of the authority figure in morality because of this and his own "copernican revolution" in his book critique of pure reason. I hope to have helped you somehow. Good luck to your exams. ;-)

Answer 2

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