The Tulip Driven Life

 With help from: http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/kant/section1.rhtml   OVERVIEW: Kant’s   primary aim is to determine the limits and scope of pure reason . That is, he wants to know what reason alone can determine without the help of the senses or any other faculties. Metaphysicians make grand claims about the nature of reality based on pure reason alone, but these claims often conflict with one another. Furthermore, Kant is prompted by Hume’s skepticism to doubt the very possibility of metaphysics.   1)       Kant thanks David Hume for awakening him from his “dogmatic slumber” that had kept him from questioning rationalist metaphysics. Although he was trained in the rationalist tradition, Kant was heavily influenced by the empiricist philosophy of David Hume.   2)       Kant is generally credited with effecting a synthesis between the empiricist philosophy that had dominated Great Britain and the rationalist philosophy that had dominated the European continent fo