Hume’s Antinomies

Abstract

The Humean philosophy involves series of dualities, which engendered among commentators’ separations between “phases” or “parts”. Thus, the readings of Hume’s texts evoked visions that sometimes highlight their naturalism and, at other times, highlight his skepticism, or distinguish the supposed positive or negative planes of its ideas. It is crucial in this context recognize the dichotomy between perspectives permeating some of his central analysis. The article shows in which extent this split derives from the diversity of principles that guide distinct cognitive faculties in Humean philosophy, especially reason and imagination. Specifically, it focus the humean discussions about belief in bodies and personal identity. It expects to indicate the antinomian aspect arising from the dualities analyzed in the question of belief in the external world and personal identity, pointing, moreover, some clues regarding a possible reconciliation or delimitation of the same workspace.