PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transcendental Idealism, Subjective Idealism, Noumenon

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILO-120
• Professor: price

Document Summary

According to george"s subjective idealism, we know only our own ideas. Both the primary and secondary qualities are subjective. Carried to an extreme, this position can become solipsism, the position that only i exist and everything else is a creation of my subjective consciousness. David hume pushed locke and berkeley"s empiricism to its logical conclusion. Arguing that all knowledge originates in sensory impressions, hume distinguished between two forms of perceptions, impressions and ideas. Impressions are lively perceptions, as we hear, see, feel, love, or hate. Ideas are less lively perceptions; they are reflections on sensations. Hume denied that there is any logical basis for concluding that things have a continued and independent existence outside us. He denied the possibility of any certain knowledge, arguing that both rationalism and empiricism are inadequate to lead to truth and knowledge. Hume id driven to skepticism about the existence of the external world, causation, a continuing self, religious doctrines, and inductive reasoning.