Considerațiuni privind raportarea metafizicii și eticii lui Hume și Kant la experiența concretă
Considerations on the Relationship of Hume’s and Kant’s Metaphysics and Ethics with the Concrete Experience

Summary/Abstract: David Hume and Immanuel Kant are two of the most representative exponents of modern philosophy and the European Enlightenment of the 18th century. Their multilateral philosophical research approached the fields of metaphysics and ethics. Their metaphysical visions contain ideational and finalist similarities, even if the Humean one is marked by scepticism and the Kantian one is influenced by idealism. Instead, their ethical conceptions, which start from different premises, are situated in antithetical positions. Hume bases his ethics on the pre-eminence of feelings and passions over reason, while Kant builds his ethical project on the value of reason to the detriment of feelings. The question that arises is to what extent their metaphysical and ethical conceptions can actually be applied to a concrete and diverse human experience. The suggested hypothesis is that their degree of applicability, relevance, or usefulness in particular cases of concrete human experience is relatively small. The conclusion is that the objections and criticisms made about their metaphysical and ethical views support this hypothesis.

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