Philosophy and Personality, part 2.2:D Hume, Kant, Hegel – as Philosophers (Part 4 of 4)

Sorting these Early Modern Exemplars
Nicholas Reitter
As in all four of these introductory chapters on the exemplar-philosophers, I now proceed to sort them using the three historical dichotomies among philosophers discussed earlier (Chapter 1.2).
With respect to the first of the three dichotomies (realism vs. idealism), Hume and Kant both take nuanced, middle-of-the-road positions that require some interpreting, while Hegel veers clearly into one of the strongest forms of idealism seen in Weste...