... 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...
Richard: Previously ... empty slate (Locke) nor does it contain what Kant believed in terms of a priori synthetic judgments. [Reader]: Your word "mind/brain"...
Omar, I admire your patience in these discussions. I really shouldn't be discussing this matter, because I've never read the second critique. The only reason...
Omar, Maybe you're right, but what sort of freedom gives no evidence of it's existence? ... From: Omar Lughod To: kant@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October...
Greetings, Mike Thank you for your thoughtful response. I take issue only with some statements that seem a little hasty. You wrote: [1] > Morality by...
Richard: Previously To avoid implying that I see the mind as some unsubstantial ( a la Descartes) thing, I connect the two. Cognition comes about through the ...
Reader, I think you're basically understanding me correctly. ... carried forward], seem to me to imply an impervious will-to-evil (or mischief) as the true...
Transcendental philosophy looks for the necessary and universal rules that underlie the possibility of a brain being able to generate representations that can ...
What a fascinating discussion I've stumbled on! 1) For Richard: Study of the brain cannot show that Kant is wrong about fundamental principles of thought...
Judy Wubnig
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... Judy, I hope i did not suggest that the meaning of ought is empirical! ===== Omar __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping...
Dear Richard, Thinking and knowing are activities of the mind, not of the brain. The brain cannot calculate that 7 + 5 = 12 or that it does not = 11, because...
Judy Wubnig
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... You seem to imply that cognition is trans-material. It has been proven that in the absence of electro-chemical activity in the brain ("brain-dead"...
Omar, ... This thinking is a help to me. Thanks for your willingness to share your formulations on the ethics. I am auditing a Kant class at a major...
Richard, you have stimulated my thinking. Thank you for your response. ... Kant was critical of Descartes' inferences of knowledge from the cogito, and called...
John, thanks for the lengthy response. Comments follow: John: So this precaution you take is against something (or some no-thing) which you yourself have...
Richard: Previously You seem to imply that cognition is trans-material. It has been proven that in the absence of electro-chemical activity in the brain ...
In a message dated 10/14/03 1:46:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Judy: Thinking and knowing are activities of the mind, not of the brain. The brain cannot...
Omar: Transcendental philosophy looks for the necessary and universal rules that underlie the possibility of a brain being able to generate representations...
... Mike: My original question about redness concerned the subjective experience of redness. You made it as far as the reactions anyway, but you skipped the...
... Thanks John, I appreciate that. While i have certainly been an exponent of looking at the theoretical Critique relative to the moral one, as a kind of...
Mike, I will make this short. Since you tipped your hand in your post by saying you find evolution absurd, it leaves me little to say or desirous of saying it....
Richard, Well it was good chatting with you anyway. Mike ... From: Saicho@... To: kant@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:33 PM Subject:...
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