Kant the cunt - preclude
After somethought over my previous post I figured I needed to add some background detail on how kant believes the world is...
Kant's first big book: The Critique of Pure Reason aka First Critique
Here, Pure Reason is used to deliniate the faculty of cognition from a priori principles
A priori in this case is the transcendental form/framework of knowledge, they are pure intuition in that they allow emperical experince and knowledge, aka a posteriori. The three most basic frameworks constituting a priori are: space, time and causality.
The Critique of Pure Reason is then the investigation of Pure Reason and the limits of a priori knowledge. The only way this is accomplished is by creating principles of cognition a priori through the understanding.
Kant's second book: The Critique of Practical Reason aka Second Critique
Here, Reason (different from Pure Reason) operates within Pure Reason and understanding with regard to the faculty of desire.
Finally, but most importantly to feature in from hence forth: The Critique of Judgement aka Third Critique
More on the third critique later...
Kant's first big book: The Critique of Pure Reason aka First Critique
Here, Pure Reason is used to deliniate the faculty of cognition from a priori principles
A priori in this case is the transcendental form/framework of knowledge, they are pure intuition in that they allow emperical experince and knowledge, aka a posteriori. The three most basic frameworks constituting a priori are: space, time and causality.
The Critique of Pure Reason is then the investigation of Pure Reason and the limits of a priori knowledge. The only way this is accomplished is by creating principles of cognition a priori through the understanding.
Kant's second book: The Critique of Practical Reason aka Second Critique
Here, Reason (different from Pure Reason) operates within Pure Reason and understanding with regard to the faculty of desire.
Finally, but most importantly to feature in from hence forth: The Critique of Judgement aka Third Critique
More on the third critique later...
posted by P Funk at 2:36 AM
3 Comments:
option 1: it's been too long since I've had a REAL philosophy class.
option 2: you need to work on writing more clearly.
option 3: I'm dumb.
Which option explains the fact that your post is incomprehensible to me?
Brings me back to sophmore year - I think it was professor Mahn who taught Kants critique of Pure Reason to us.
Anyways it always was interesting when regarding that 'thing-in-itself'. On one hand you can take the postition that it is impossible to know the subjective nature of a thing outside of oneself, from a mosquito to Nagels proverbial bat. We can only know our own minds and even then, thats not a given. Using the knowledge of our minds we regard other things in an objective sense becuase we can never actually be that thing and can never, therefore, know what its like to be that thing subjectively.
On the other hand, though, I see Kant as accepting this principle. That we regard the world from the realm of our ownthrough either a priori or a mind is a given - but as a result it is a world of our mind and therefore discernable posteriori knoweldge. I feel as if Kant takes it as a given that all knowledge is subjective but that subjective knowledge wielded in an a priori manner should net the same conclusion. Its when that knoweldge or idealism is used in an a posteriori manner that we fall victim to the chained freedom of our minds.
Its also amusing, to me, that Kant uses a priori reasoning before really explaining what it is. Whats best is that the defenition of a priori must, in itself, be a priori. It cannot be derived from experience but must be immediatley knowable through natural deduction or observation.
However, given that its been far too long since I talked Kants Critique of Pure reason I cannot write about it with any degree of certainty. So please critique my critique of The Critique.
hmm... I shall be going up to the critique of judgement and be going in more depths on that...and that will have much to do with the issue of subjectivity and the thing in itself... I actually am reading kant... and its fucking painful...
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