A History of Western Philosophy and Theology

Hume had proved that the law of causality is not analytic, and had inferred that we could not be certain of its truth. Kant accepted the view that it is synthetic, but nevertheless maintained that it is known a priori. He maintained that arithmetic and geometry are synthetic, but are likewise a priori. He was thus led to formulate his problem in th

The question of how to coordinate philosophical reason and revelation proved to be an enduring problem for Husserl himself.

The history of Western philosophy is to a large extent an attempt to provide an answer to the question as to what is fundamental. It is a search for the point of departure from which everything else follows: matter, God, the spirit, the atoms and the void, Platonic Forms, a priori forms of intuition, the subject, Absolute Spirit, elementary moments