Two questions to be answered separately

1. Consider the following paraphrase of an argument from Hume’s character Philo in the Dialogues:
“All our knowledge about matters of fact comes from sense experience. God is not an object of sense experience, nor can we establish the existence of God through some chain of inference from sense experience (for example, through a design argument). Therefore, there is no basis for belief in God.”
In response to this Humean argument, what would Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher each say about the basis for belief in God? How are their responses similar and how do they differ?

2. In Philosophical Fragments Soren Kierkegaard (as Johannes Climacus) conducts a thought experiment exploring the distinctive role of Christ in the Christian faith. First, briefly explain the knower’s paradox, and describe his account of the “Socratic model” for the relation of teacher and learner. Second, explain the way Kierkegaard constructs an alternative model in which the teacher has decisive (unsubstitutable) significance for the learner. Third, apply Kierkegaard’s analysis of these two models either to Kant’s understanding of true moral religion or to Schleiermacher’s understanding of true piety. Which of Kierkegaard’s two models best describes this thinker’s view?

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