In order to understand Kant, we have to know the philosophers before him. Therefore please research on these two terms "Empiricism" and "Rationalism", and write explanations for each term before Thursday March 31.
Key question: their different accounts of knowledge, regarding the relationship between thinking beings (subjects) and existing things (objects). Do you agree with their explanation of knowledge?
Major philosophers: Hume for Empiricism and Leibniz for Rationalism
Methodology: Research on internet or in library
Format: explain each term with at least 100 words respectively and hand them in on Thursday March 31.
It counts as one journal.
Jennifer Bacigalupo
ReplyDelete1) Empiricism- the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience
(David Hume) [existing things (objects)]
2) Rationalism- a) the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience
b) the doctrine that all knowledge is self-evident propositions of their consequences
(Gottfried Leibniz) [thinking beings (subjects)]