Fichte`s Legacy in Logic
... The proposition, ‘God is omnipotent’ contains two concepts, each of which has its object – God and omnipotence. The small word ‘is’ adds no new predicate, but only serves to posit the predicate in its relation to the subject. If, now, we take the subject (God) with all its predicates (among which is ...
... The proposition, ‘God is omnipotent’ contains two concepts, each of which has its object – God and omnipotence. The small word ‘is’ adds no new predicate, but only serves to posit the predicate in its relation to the subject. If, now, we take the subject (God) with all its predicates (among which is ...
The War for Children`s Minds - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
... or how authoritarian, should we be? Parents, teachers and policymakers constantly find themselves confronted by this question. On the one hand, many of us seem embarrassed even to bring up the subject of morality with our offspring. Certainly, many are no longer confident about saying ‘Do as you are ...
... or how authoritarian, should we be? Parents, teachers and policymakers constantly find themselves confronted by this question. On the one hand, many of us seem embarrassed even to bring up the subject of morality with our offspring. Certainly, many are no longer confident about saying ‘Do as you are ...
Kant`s Schematism and the Foundations of Mathematics
... explored in the literature. In this thesis, this chapter on the geometrical schemata functions mostly as an introduction to schematism and the central notions of schematism such as types, tokens and rules. Chapter 3 is on the schematism of the pure concepts of quantity. I show how Kant operates with ...
... explored in the literature. In this thesis, this chapter on the geometrical schemata functions mostly as an introduction to schematism and the central notions of schematism such as types, tokens and rules. Chapter 3 is on the schematism of the pure concepts of quantity. I show how Kant operates with ...
maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... Maimon’s rejoinder is very complex. He pursues several lines of attack. In a first approach he doubts that the Kantian categories can be applied to empirical intuition, that is, to something given to the senses. Derived from mere logical principles, categories can hold only for thought objects or ‘o ...
... Maimon’s rejoinder is very complex. He pursues several lines of attack. In a first approach he doubts that the Kantian categories can be applied to empirical intuition, that is, to something given to the senses. Derived from mere logical principles, categories can hold only for thought objects or ‘o ...
The Beautiful Soul and the Autocratic Agent: Schilleris
... In “On Grace and Dignity,” Schiller insists that he is in “perfect agreement” with the basics or fundamentals of Kant’s ethics (169; 205). What he finds problematic is the manner in which Kant presents his rationalist moral theory. While Schiller offers little analysis of the Kantian doctrines with ...
... In “On Grace and Dignity,” Schiller insists that he is in “perfect agreement” with the basics or fundamentals of Kant’s ethics (169; 205). What he finds problematic is the manner in which Kant presents his rationalist moral theory. While Schiller offers little analysis of the Kantian doctrines with ...
Heteronomy and Autonomy in Nietzsche and Kant
... inevitably involves a critique of cultural and individual morality and truth-‐claims, is precisely what Nietzsche, as a “social” philosopher is invested in. Nietzsche, however, will surpass Kant by putting ...
... inevitably involves a critique of cultural and individual morality and truth-‐claims, is precisely what Nietzsche, as a “social” philosopher is invested in. Nietzsche, however, will surpass Kant by putting ...
The Inaugural Address AUTONOMY: THE EMPEROR`S NEW
... of various conceptions of rational autonomy provide of the proper processes for rational choosing. I suspect that it would be hard to show that rationally autonomous choosing always (or even generally) leads to ethically superior choices. Recent conceptions of rationally autonomy allow desires and p ...
... of various conceptions of rational autonomy provide of the proper processes for rational choosing. I suspect that it would be hard to show that rationally autonomous choosing always (or even generally) leads to ethically superior choices. Recent conceptions of rationally autonomy allow desires and p ...
Theoretical Reason and Practical Reason for Kant and Tabataba`i
... reason. Division of reason into theoretical and practical and also the way of their influence on each other will demonstrate that how much both thinkers have agreement and disagreement about definition, method and limits of understanding, and how these two reason are functioning. We can find a deepe ...
... reason. Division of reason into theoretical and practical and also the way of their influence on each other will demonstrate that how much both thinkers have agreement and disagreement about definition, method and limits of understanding, and how these two reason are functioning. We can find a deepe ...
Kant`s Deconstruction of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
... credit for having finally provided the proof of the 'principle of sufficient reason' that his predecessors in German post-Leibnizian philosophy had sought in vain. They could not provide such a proof, he says, beca~lse they lacked the transcendental method of the Critique oj'Pure Reason. According t ...
... credit for having finally provided the proof of the 'principle of sufficient reason' that his predecessors in German post-Leibnizian philosophy had sought in vain. They could not provide such a proof, he says, beca~lse they lacked the transcendental method of the Critique oj'Pure Reason. According t ...
Kant`s Account of Moral Education
... possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands outside the causal chains of the empirical world. The idea of transcendental freedom is intro ...
... possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands outside the causal chains of the empirical world. The idea of transcendental freedom is intro ...
Norms, Selves, and Concepts
... phenomenon I am claiming provided Descartes with his semantic paradigm—is the global isomorphism between the two systems. One can, if one likes, still think of a formula and the figure it represents as sharing something or being alike in some way. But what they share must be thought about in terms o ...
... phenomenon I am claiming provided Descartes with his semantic paradigm—is the global isomorphism between the two systems. One can, if one likes, still think of a formula and the figure it represents as sharing something or being alike in some way. But what they share must be thought about in terms o ...
Kant`s Pre-Critical Proof for God`s Existence
... two-sided triangles, things that are red and green all over at the same time or taller or older than themselves are impossible beings, because they are inconceivable, not just for us, but in and of themselves.2 It is therefore natural to assume that anything that is conceivable without contradiction ...
... two-sided triangles, things that are red and green all over at the same time or taller or older than themselves are impossible beings, because they are inconceivable, not just for us, but in and of themselves.2 It is therefore natural to assume that anything that is conceivable without contradiction ...
The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason
... see how they could have any application to the sensory realm. What these two analyses of concepts had in common is the following hard choice. If we think of concepts as telling us something universal and necessary, then we have to think of them as having nothing to do with the world of sense experie ...
... see how they could have any application to the sensory realm. What these two analyses of concepts had in common is the following hard choice. If we think of concepts as telling us something universal and necessary, then we have to think of them as having nothing to do with the world of sense experie ...
Kant on Irresistible Inclinations: Moral Worth, Happiness
... I have no intention of arguing that Kant held that we have irresistible inclinations. However, I do believe that it can be inferred from several of his discussions what Kant believed could constitute an irresistible inclination. In fact, such comments suggest that, while we may not have irresistible ...
... I have no intention of arguing that Kant held that we have irresistible inclinations. However, I do believe that it can be inferred from several of his discussions what Kant believed could constitute an irresistible inclination. In fact, such comments suggest that, while we may not have irresistible ...
Re-thinking Catholic Philosophy: Alasdair MacIntyre and the
... the Critique was meant to highlight what it could and could not do before reason begins a new task. Turning away from Hobbes and Locke, both of whom considered reason as a passive principle, Kant maintained that reason was by nature architectonic, that is, it had the capacity to devise a system to a ...
... the Critique was meant to highlight what it could and could not do before reason begins a new task. Turning away from Hobbes and Locke, both of whom considered reason as a passive principle, Kant maintained that reason was by nature architectonic, that is, it had the capacity to devise a system to a ...
The Enlightenment
... - is that they are hollow and incomplete thoughts unless considered through situated practice. They are always “embodied” concepts that appear integrally with human beings who collectively seek goals. These concepts constitute themselves within a framework of rules that belong to human beings. The f ...
... - is that they are hollow and incomplete thoughts unless considered through situated practice. They are always “embodied” concepts that appear integrally with human beings who collectively seek goals. These concepts constitute themselves within a framework of rules that belong to human beings. The f ...
Deleuze Lecture on Kant 1978 - The Partially Examined Life
... Is there anything else besides the categories that can be a priori, which is to say, universal and necessary? The reply is yes, and this other thing is space and time. Because every object is in space and in time, or at least in time. But you will say to me straight away, very well then, why not mak ...
... Is there anything else besides the categories that can be a priori, which is to say, universal and necessary? The reply is yes, and this other thing is space and time. Because every object is in space and in time, or at least in time. But you will say to me straight away, very well then, why not mak ...
KANT`S RESPONSE TO SKEPTICISM
... handling transcendental arguments is called for, which, rather than trying to respond to Stroud’s concerns by using transcendental idealism, does not attempt to cross his ‘‘bridge of necessity’’ at all; instead, it allows that the only necessary conditions we can establish concern how we must think ...
... handling transcendental arguments is called for, which, rather than trying to respond to Stroud’s concerns by using transcendental idealism, does not attempt to cross his ‘‘bridge of necessity’’ at all; instead, it allows that the only necessary conditions we can establish concern how we must think ...
Overview - Course Materials
... A priori principles: For Kant, this means logically prior to any engagement with experience. A priori principles are founded in reason, and one cannot use experience to prove them. For example, in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that there are the a priori categories of time and space that ...
... A priori principles: For Kant, this means logically prior to any engagement with experience. A priori principles are founded in reason, and one cannot use experience to prove them. For example, in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that there are the a priori categories of time and space that ...
Kant-The Critique of Practical Reason
... It is here that Kant first signals in the Critique of Practical Reason the form of the law of morality he has in mind. He refers to the question ‘what if everybody did that?’ which one might put to an actor. He asks whether an action would be practicable and in particular if it would lead to other r ...
... It is here that Kant first signals in the Critique of Practical Reason the form of the law of morality he has in mind. He refers to the question ‘what if everybody did that?’ which one might put to an actor. He asks whether an action would be practicable and in particular if it would lead to other r ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... philosophers since, such as Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein. I found Peter Rickman’s lecture series, delivered in 1995 at the City University in London UK, on the Critique of Pure Reason of immense value in trying to understand Kant’s work. It is my view that Kant’s work is so subtle and revolutionary ...
... philosophers since, such as Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein. I found Peter Rickman’s lecture series, delivered in 1995 at the City University in London UK, on the Critique of Pure Reason of immense value in trying to understand Kant’s work. It is my view that Kant’s work is so subtle and revolutionary ...
Slides - Faculty of Philosophy
... nothing else but the principles for the determination of the existence of appearances in time with respect to all of its three modes, the relation to time itself as a magnitude (the magnitude of existence, i.e., duration), the relation in time as a series (successively), and finally [the relation] i ...
... nothing else but the principles for the determination of the existence of appearances in time with respect to all of its three modes, the relation to time itself as a magnitude (the magnitude of existence, i.e., duration), the relation in time as a series (successively), and finally [the relation] i ...
September 4
... Since first-order logic is supposed to be our most austere, canonical language, there does seem to be a real difference between existence and predication. Still, we should not necessarily follow Kant on the basis of first-order logic. Formal systems can be constructed with all sorts of properties. W ...
... Since first-order logic is supposed to be our most austere, canonical language, there does seem to be a real difference between existence and predication. Still, we should not necessarily follow Kant on the basis of first-order logic. Formal systems can be constructed with all sorts of properties. W ...
The Ontological argument 2
... that denying God’s existence was then cease to theexist same and as trying toof deny triangles Descartes’ idea existence have three sides, which is imagine the concept of God, as a predicate. contradictory. there is that no contradiction. Kant states if you dismiss both In order to deal with the t ...
... that denying God’s existence was then cease to theexist same and as trying toof deny triangles Descartes’ idea existence have three sides, which is imagine the concept of God, as a predicate. contradictory. there is that no contradiction. Kant states if you dismiss both In order to deal with the t ...
Critique of Pure Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft, KrV, in original: Critik der reinen Vernunft) by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781, second edition 1787, is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Also referred to as Kant's ""first critique,"" it was followed in 1788 by the Critique of Practical Reason and in 1790 by the Critique of Judgment. In the preface to the first edition Kant explains what he means by a critique of pure reason: ""I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience.""Before Kant, it was generally held that truths of reason must be analytic, meaning that what is stated in the predicate must already be present in the subject (for example, ""An intelligent man is intelligent"" or ""An intelligent man is a man""). In either case, the judgment is analytic because it is ascertained by analyzing the subject. It was thought that all truths of reason, or necessary truths, are of this kind: that in all of them there is a predicate that is only part of the subject of which it is asserted. If this were so, attempting to deny anything that could be known a priori (for example, ""An intelligent man is not intelligent"" or ""An intelligent man is not a man"") would involve a contradiction. It was therefore thought that the law of contradiction is sufficient to establish all a priori knowledge.