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5.1 The Fluvial and the Necessary: The ‘Current of Nature’ 5.1 The Fluvial and the Necessary: The ‘Current of Nature’
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5.1.1 Sceptical Necessity: ‘A Wonderful and Unintelligible Instinct’ 5.1.1 Sceptical Necessity: ‘A Wonderful and Unintelligible Instinct’
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5.1.1.1 Undermining categorical human superiority. 5.1.1.1 Undermining categorical human superiority.
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5.1.1.2 Animality and causal necessity. 5.1.1.2 Animality and causal necessity.
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5.1.1.3 Sceptical and Kantian necessity. 5.1.1.3 Sceptical and Kantian necessity.
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5.1.2 Sceptical Contingency: The ‘Loose and Unconnected’ 5.1.2 Sceptical Contingency: The ‘Loose and Unconnected’
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5.2 Apelletic Empiricism and the Priority of Hume’s Sceptical Naturalism 5.2 Apelletic Empiricism and the Priority of Hume’s Sceptical Naturalism
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5.2.1 Nature as Press 5.2.1 Nature as Press
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5.2.2 Moving Nature 5.2.2 Moving Nature
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5.2.3 Stability as Press 5.2.3 Stability as Press
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5.3 The Fatalities of Nature and Human Empereia 5.3 The Fatalities of Nature and Human Empereia
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5.4 Conclusion 5.4 Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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5 Phûsis: The Fatalities of Appearance
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Published:December 2019
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Abstract
Nature is the first component of the Pyrrhonian Fourfold; and Chapter Five argues that Hume’s naturalism is constitutive of his scepticism, rather than opposed to it or distinct from it. The chapter’s excursus describes a properly sceptical naturalism, a naturalism stripped of epistemic and metaphysical claims and import. Chapter Five grounds its argument first upon Hume’s ideas about animality and the association of ideas and proceeds to lay out the subtle interplay of necessity and contingency in Hume’s theories concerning causality, reason, perception, and imagination. The chapter interprets the reassertion of nature at the end of Treatise 1.4.7 as a crucially Pyrrhonian-Apelleticmoment moment that presents atûchikos finding about human fortune and fate. Nature more generally is rendered in Hume as the press of humanity’s fatedness to impressions or appearances in common life. The text compares Hume’s ideas with those of various rationalists, as well as with the work of Immanuel Kant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Stanley Cavell.
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