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Philosophy

The Modern Turn

Doubt, evidence and duty, rebuilt from the foundations up

Descartes · Hume · Kant · 3 chapters · 9 min read

Doubt, evidence, and duty rebuild philosophy from scratch.

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Descartes & Radical Doubt

  1. 01I Think, Therefore I AmOn throwing away everything you believe to find out what is left standing.

Evidence & Duty

  1. 02Hume and the Problem of InductionOn the discovery that our most basic reasoning has no foundation, and works anyway.
  2. 03Kant's Categorical ImperativeOn grounding morality in reason alone, and testing rules by trying to universalise them.