... The word Kant uses is "Vorstellung," which really means "idea" in the sense that Descartes and those following him used it. Kant objects to the use of ...
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I am pleased to announce the creation of two new slow reading lists -- for Plato's Lysis (plato-lysis@yahoogroups.com) and Plato's Philebus ...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
hello forum members, just purchased a copy of kant's "critique on pure reason" and would like to know if how to begin? i'm not a philosophy major and specfic ...
... would ... specfic ... Feel free to skip the Preface, but the Introduction is really part of the main text, and is absolutely vital for understanding most...
... To W. Johnson: I) What translation are you using? There are problems with all English translations of Kant (as there are with translations generally). In...
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... I recommend Brand Blanshard, On Philosophical Style. ... i can't help mentioning that judy wubnig and i were among the last of blanshard's students. bill...
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... Judy, How does your analysis inform the distinction between a representation that is an idea of reason, and an representation is an object of knowledge and...
... **************************************************************** Omar, 1) Kant does distinguish between the mental event of having an idea and the content...
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I apologize. I can't remember whether it was this Kant group or another that decided to read and analyze the Critique of Pure Reason together. If I am...
Can someone explain what differences there is between understanding and reason, according to Kant? I suspect that as he wrote the "critique of pure reason", he...
Reason is both a generic term for all of the spontaneous faculties (imagination, understanding, and regulative reason), and refers to regulative reason...
... Check What Kemp Smith says about the references in his Commentary. I believe that the references are the standard ones, to the First (A) and Second (B)...
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hello forum members, have a few questions concerning kant and his philosophy and was wondering what exactly is: 1. a priori information 2. the fundamental...
... Hello, I dont iknow f ill be precise enough but here is what i ve understood; 1) kant doesnt speak of " a priori information" but of " a priori judgement";...
This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
im new in this group and im hoping not to regret what i have decided. im enrolled in kant's class in our university. i'd like to know kant better. tnx...
In a message dated 9/29/03 4:45:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Which areas of Kant's philosophy interests you? His moral, epistemological or ontological...
well i am interested in his morality.. i've read his book 3-7 (pages prior to the appendix to the transcendental dialictic) and its so convincing! i mean when...
In a message dated 9/29/03 10:55:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... While there is a great deal to be said about Kant’s ethics/morality, since you asked my...
... until Darwin and then especially the modern thinkers and recent findings in neuroscience .... [Reader]: In my opinion, these parameters are too general,...
The two responders to my remarks on Kant took issue with my statement: "We now know that both Kant and John Locke were wrong -- Locke believing that the mind...
Regards, Richard. Thank you for your response. ... empty slate (Locke) nor does it contain what Kant believed in terms of a priori synthetic judgments. ...
First, I must say that my statement about not hearing a sound argument against Kant was too broad in scope. What I should have said is that I haven't heard a...
That's well put, but I have to take exception to your last two paragraphs. Kant never proved freedom. He only assumed it. Morality by definition pertains to...
... Mike, Kant deduces freedom from the moral law in the section on the deduction of the moral law in the second Critique. Despite the title, Kant is clear...
mike, Freedom cannot be demonstrated empirically, because it is supersensible in nature. If freedom was empirical, then it would be bound by the laws of...