Bruce, Nietzsche and Hegel, vis a vis the Chinese: I have taught them classes on each. They have a cultural awareness of Hegel, vis a vis, Marx, who is...
"That is true Omar. We cannot know what cannot appear. We can know what does appear, and what does appear is (usually, but not always) the thing itself. I say ...
We have knowledge of rights, where rights are a form of thing-in-itself and never manifest as appearance. This example goes contrary to the statement, "We...
Rights indeed belong to the domain of the noumenal, in the way that theoretical knowledge never can. For rights belong to the moral domain, and take their...
Rights, as you say, are not in the domain of theoretical knowledge, but they do arise from the domain of practical knowledge. This is a knowledge from an...
So often I have read in Kant pages perplexity about the nature of the relationship between the two books constituting the Critique of Judgment. Kant's Critique...
Kant is careful not to use the word knowledge with respect to the practical with good reason. He must insure that the two faculties do not intrude on each...
Yet I find this kind of statement all the time in Kant's writings: "Natural right, understood simply as that right which is not statutory, and which is ...
As regards the Critique of Practic Reason: The “man” in a practical respective, carries out his actions in accordance with the pure form of law, of duty...
However, the freedom vs. nature dualism also obtains *within* the practical, as found most clearly in the two halves of the Metaphysics of Morals. And here...
... I was going to make the same point about God knowing your heart of hearts, but I deleted that part of my response. Only God knows if your moral efforts are...
... "virtue." A right pertains to respecting the freedom of the actions of the wills of others in perfecting the harmony of ends which is the ideal of the pure...
... Aristotle faltered due to his lack of a transcendental distinction. Aristotle there attacks Plato's Ideas as noumenal ("intrinsic"), thus unknowable. This...
Right speaks to external freedom. This freedom is external in the sense that it brings my freedom into accord with yours: it is not merely me in relation to my...
My point is that Kant does the typical critical move: what faculties would have to be at work in order to make such and such a claim. If Kant finds that...
Mostly the Critical move is to ask how Reason operates incorrectly regarding this or that philosophical claim. ... faculties would have to be at work in order...
Critique's role is both negative and positive: Its positive role is to ask what our reason must be able to do in order to be compatible with the spirit of...
We can formulate a regulative principle (the moral test; or the highest good as a regulative ideal) to guide our moral willing. But we can articulate no...
Omar, Perhaps it's worth protesting again (!) that you really diminish Kant with your extreme focus on the (telic) primacy of the practical. It is also an...
I see the Critique as an attempt to eliminate pure metaphysics as an ontological view in its own right, and to relegate it to the role of systematizer, a...
That is to emphasize the role of the humanities over the hard sciences. But is the highest purpose individual and moral or social and political? ... to ask...
And so happiness is derived from the knowledge that we tried our moral best, correct? ... highest good as a regulative ideal) to guide our moral willing. But...
The kind of happiness associated with morality, a "happiness worthy of the moral law," is not a sensibly derived happiness, but a special kind of experience of...
But the system in question is one that includes the ontological conditions of the experience, or knowledge, or actuality of reality. With Kant there is no...
When I think analogically I posit a relationship that is not to be found in the objects compared. The analogy is not a bit of knowledge. I infuse the two...
