Hume’s Radical Empiricism and Kant's Views Contribution to Metaphysics

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Question 1
I believe that Humes’s theory of radicalism is a precursor to radical skepticism. This is attributed to the fact that Hume utilizes empiricism which renders various areas of inquiry unintelligible. Empiricism fails to explain apparent knowledge cases, thereby leading to skepticism as individuals begin to doubt certain aspects of dogmatic beliefs such as religion and metaphysics. Hume’s philosophical arguments are antimetaphysical because knowledge comes from two sources: matters of fact and the relation of ideas (Miller & Jensen, 2009, p. 223). Hume is an empiricist, and this leads to skepticism as he believes that every knowledge that people acquire is due to traceable experiences they have had as human beings born with blank minds. I think Hume’s elimination of rationality of makes science impossible. Science pegs its findings on the natural belief that all events have a cause, Hume disputes. For instance, the belief that A causes B can be informed that A is close to B, but neither causes the other to happen in reality (Miller & Jensen, 2009, p.221). Hume argues that only rational knowledge exists and that all other knowledge is based on perceptions that cannot conclusively explain a real causal connection between things
Question 2
I think that Kant’s views contributed immensely to metaphysics because of his arguments that reality, as perceived by indiv...