Kant's Contact With British Empiricism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16004357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Bowman Piper (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174-174 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2738043 |
| OpenAlex | W2318488854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
NOT MANY HISTORIANS OF PHILOSOPHY these days devote their attention to James Beattie's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770);' nor does it seem to deserve much attention. This work is chiefly notable in itself for the dogmatic enthusiasm with which it defended orthodox religion, for its outspoken contempt of philosophical insouciance, and for its lively misrepresentation of Berkeley and Hume. Beattie's own friends had misgivings, when the Essay first appeared, about its violent and personal attack on the socially gracious if notoriously skeptical Hume;2 but this attack, coupled with the work's intransigent Christianity, is what gave it its immediate fame. Unlike the major works of Berkeley and Hume, respectively The Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Beattie's Essay was translated into German (1772)3 in time to affect Kant. Although Kant had, of course, little or no English, as Arthur Lovejoy, Rene Wellek, and other scholars have pointed out,4 he
Contempt · Empiricism · Enthusiasm · Epistemology · German · Skepticism · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2009 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |