Comparing The Philosophies Of Kant And Hume

Both Kant and Hume can be challenged by problem of the source of knowledge because Hume speaks from the perspective of the empiricism and Kant on the distinction of phenomenal and noumenal. But one can show both of them have no excuse for their unbelief. In the enlightenment we come to realize two things which are informative, they are senses and the rational faculty. (Owen,p.144) some argued that rational faculty give foundation to intuition that were used to understand sense while other would say the rational faculty is a Tabula Raza (Blank) depending on which school of thought. “Ideas originate in sense data but the mind reflect these idea, what kind of reflection can be expected from a person?” (p.146). Hume says all he sees are mental …show more content…
“With the presuppostitional responsibility for instance, if someone studies then one is responsible in understanding and vice versa.”(see Owen, p.195) . So When the Christians claim is that humans are responsible to know God exist there is clarity and if there is not clear at this level of knowing then there wouldn’t be at all clear for example, if one is not knowledgeable of what is eternal then logically other derivative issues such as all or only one is eternal.(Owen,