Pirsig's Philosophers
ZMM 25th Anniversary Edition, pg. 128 - Thus it was David Hume, Kant said, who ``aroused me from my dogmatic slumbers'' and caused him to write what is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophical treatises ever written, the Critique of Pure Reason, often the subject of an entire University course. Pg. 133 - The bulk of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
is concerned with how this a priori knowledge is acquired and how it is employed.
Pg. 133 - It was the acceptance of the Copernican revolution that distinguishes modern man from his medieval predecessors.
Metaphysics examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship[1] between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality.