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Immanuel Kant was a German Enlightenment philosopher.
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Assumption about the existence of "knowledge a priori" by Kant
I am just starting to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason translated by Max Mueller. In the introductory chapter, "General truths, which at the same time, bear the character of an inward ...
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What is a "Sache" in Kant's metaphysics?
In Prolegomena §9:
Freilich ist es auch alsdenn unbegreiflich, wie die Anschauung einer gegenwärtigen Sache mir diese sollte zu erkennen geben, wie sie an sich ist
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In Kant, are "pure intuition" and "intuition a priori" synonyms?
I'm reading the prolegomena, and in §7, Kant presents both
"pure intuition" (reine Anschauung), mentioned many times, and
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Is the split between Continental and Analytical comparable to the split between Empiricism and Rationalism, if so can it be reconciled?
Just as Kant reconciled empiricism and rationalism, is there a project to unify analytical and continental ? Or is Analytical philosophy irreversibly ingrained in Scientism while continental ...
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Newton and Kant about 'Absolute Space'
Newton starts his book The Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy, 1687
II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable.
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How is 'Pure Intuition' possible according to Kant?
One of the key passages is from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). According to Kant pure intution is the means to obtain mathematical theorems as synthetic a priori propositions. This ...
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Do scalar fields satisfy Kant's indefinitely-divisible matter thesis?
So Kant concluded vs. the Second Antinomy that matter is indefinitely divisible, so he would have taken issue with the idea that the Planck scale is the absolute limit, here. At first, I was thinking ...
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Kant's Prolegomena §6 text interpretation "might reveal itself through these its effects"
I'm having a hard time trying to interpret this part of the text:
Does not this capacity, since it is not, and cannot be, based on experience, presuppose some a priori basis for cognition, which lies ...
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Is there a naturalized intuitionist mathematics? Is it Kantian?
I have in mind an interpretation of mathematics as intuitionalism, where intuitions are subjective (built from personal experience), but subjective experience is ultimately explained “objectively” a ...
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Why must things in themselves remain wholly unknown?
I'm on the Transcendental Aesthetic (and so am well aware that Kant's reasoning here may become clearer later on) -- what confuses me is how it seems to follow, from the discovery that time and space, ...
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What say Kantian ethics about capitalism?
As I did read, it does not look like Kantian ethics favors socialism (especially given it requires slavery by economic imperative), but I would like a more rigorous analysis.
Note that
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Is Mathematics a form of experience?
When someone experiences the mental clarity of 2 + 2 = 4, is this a form of experience similar to let's say, seeing red, or the sour taste of a pickle.
On the one hand it seems like it is a form of ...
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Where exactly Kant says ‘philosophy is to learn how to think …’?
this is a famous quote from Emanuel Kant: “philosophy is to learn how to think, and not to learn thoughts”.
Where exactly did Kant say that? And what is the correct form of it?
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Kant's modal logic
It is customary nowadays to have the introduction rule for the possibility operator "◊" be a two-edged negation of the necessity operator "□": ◊A = ~□~A. It is also possible (haha!)...
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Analytic vs Dialectic logic
What are analytic and dialectic logic in Kantian philosophy? What's the difference between them and why can't we use analytic logic as an organon?
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What exactly is Nietzsche’s criticism of the Thing-in-itself and is it supplanted by his Will to Power?
How did Nietzsche criticize the Thing-in-itself from Kantian philosophy?
There are two popular claims:
Nietzsche thought that we only know causation from experiences and and so cannot legitimately ...
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The role of fiction and analogy in Kant’s epistemology
It seems undeniable that we can create new fictions by analogy and combination, which are merely inspired by what we take the basic structure of reality.
For example, we do not (directly) experience a ...
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What is the philosophical position that a metaphysical debate is caused by different mental models?
I'm looking for authors, papers, and hopefully, the name of the philosophical position that I describe here. I've seen a couple of papers so I know that they exist, but I can't recall the authors or ...
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Understanding some aspects of schematism in Kant's philosophy
I'm struggling to understand Kant's schematism. Kant says that imagination produces the synthesis of schemata and that schemata are how we can relate intuitions to concepts. He goes on to give the ...
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I need help understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
I need help in understanding Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason § 18 and 19. What Kant does there suggests an alternative to the idea that a concept represents a different object. So the question is about ...
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Is it ethical to convince someone to get vaccinated?
I'm currently writing about the ethics of vaccinations, and I have two long-standing concerns about the matter. "Is refusing vaccination a morally justifiable position?" will be my question. ...
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The inquisition and Kantian morality
I read in Williams' book on truth that during the inquisition priests were eager to apply Kantian ethics under torture, and that this proved difficult because lies - and arguably secrets - were ...
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Complicity in Kantian ethics
Let's use the example of the trolly problem, as everyone seems to understand what is at stake there. If I have a radio to the train driver, am I "using people as means" if I:
tell him to ...
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Cassirer and the Categorical Imperative
I've been reading some of the shorter works of the neo-Kantian and proto-semiologist Ernst Cassirer. While I find him a valuable bridge across the "continental divide," I'm not sure yet that ...
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What does Judith Jarvis Thomson's looped trolley problem show about Kant?
What does Judith Jarvis Thomson's looped trolley problem show about Kant?
the bystander does not need or use the one workman to save the five, because the latter’s presence on the track contributes ...
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What can be known and what can be believed when neither induction nor deduction is justified?
Kant is well known for taking seriously the lack of justification for induction voiced by Hume and finding what is left for us to be able to know and believe.
I wonder, with the knowledge that the ...
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Ontic/Ontological as parallel to a posteriori/a priori?
Heidegger makes the distinction between the ontic (concerning beings themselves) and the ontological (the being of beings, being as such).
Would it be wise to say that the ontic covers the contingent ...
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Does Kant merely assume that all other good things can be good *with* limitation in the absence of a good will?
To elaborate on my question:
To argue that a good will is the only thing that is good without limitation, Kant must argue that all other good things are not good without limitation. To do this, doesn'...
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Animal commodification
Is it morally or ethically justified to commodify animals (i.e., such as the tiger temple when it was a thing)? Should humans treat animals' ends (telos) with as much respect as we do ourselves? ...
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What is the meaning of "dialectic"and "analytic" in Kant's First Critique?
The meaning of the term dialectic, as in Transcendental Dialectic, in the Critique Of Pure Reason, is obscure. This, mixed with the already complex text, makes this term difficult to assess.
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Kant’s claim “there are only three kinds of proof for the existence of God”
There are only three kinds of proof for the existence of God possible from speculative reason.
All paths on which one may set forth with this aim either begin from determinate experience and the ...
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Are Ideas Noumenal?
I've been studying Kant's philosophy recently and I haven't been able to get something straight.
Quick question here: How does Kant's distinction between phenomena/noumena apply to ideas and thoughts? ...
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What is the difference between the “thing in itself” and noumena?
“Things in themselves” and noumena are similar in Kantian metaphysics (Critique of Pure Reason, mostly) and interchangeable much of the time. The phenomena/noumena divide is integral to Kantian ...
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Kant vs Scientific Rationalism - Do we need the Ding an Sich
I actually like Kant's distinction between noumena and phenomena. But I have a nagging doubt.
If we look at modern physics, appearances can be explained by entities such as atoms, electrons and quarks ...
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Did Kant ever explain why “senses do not err” when it comes to optical illusions?
Still less may we take appearance and illusion for one and the same. For truth and illusion are not in the object, insofar as it is intuited, but in the judgment about it insofar as it is thought. ...
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Is it always wrong to use other people for one's own purpose?
Kant says it is always wrong, do you agree or disagree? Is it always wrong to use other people for one's own purpose?
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What do we mean by "if we have a proposition which is thought in conjunction with its own necessity"?
I am reading an English translation of Critique of Pure Reason by Kant and came across the statement "if we have a proposition which is thought in conjunction with its own necessity, we have an a ...
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Is the Categorical Imperative Simply Bad Math? :)
The title is clickbait, but the question is not.
First, The Categorical Imperative:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
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Are there any philosophers after Kant but before Peirce that developed the Kantian concept of schema further?
I was reading Peirce's writings on schemata and I was wondering if there was any other known philosopher before him who tried to use or extend schemata in his work.
Are there any philosophers after ...
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What was Kant's argument for absolute space from a single hand being necessarily either left or right?
In their book "Von Glückzahl bis Geheimzahl" Christian Hesse and Karsten Schwanke write:
As far as the absoluteness of space is concerned, Kant gave the
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The Ontological Argument and Kant's Critique
Do you think Plantinga's claim that Anselm does not use existence as a predicate/attribute in his proof is consistent? I don't think it's quite right. Because Plantinga himself states that Anselm uses ...
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Roles of sensibility, understanding and imagination in Kant's epistemology
According to Kantian epistemology, there are three falcuties of mind; sensibility, understanding and imagination. Unfortunately, the differentiation between these three are not totally sure to me so I ...
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Understanding Kant's view on space and time
I am trying to understand Kant's view on space and time. After reading several articles, I think I somewhat understood what he is trying to say, but I'd like to get my view approved. Here is how I ...
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Is Russell's "(im)predicativity" terminology related to (or even derived from) Kant's "existence is not a predicate" argument?
I'm a mathematician who's generally ignorant of philosophy, so forgive me if my question is a bit sloppy. I'm really trying to ask about a historical connection/context.
I recently encountered the ...
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What did Kant mean by "objects" and how do they relate to intutions and concepts?
I am trying to understand Kant's taxonomy of ideas (or "representations") and I am stuck on his meaning of "intuition", in particular, whether or not the object of an intuition ...
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Views on the Implications of Temporal Subjectivity upon Shared Experience
With notions of subjective time (i.e. time as empirically inert) like those put forward by Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz and Kant, is there anything out there which speculates on the potential for a varied ...
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Categorical imperative vs. Consequentialism
i am new to philosophy. I am willing to understand where is the fine border between action-based and consequence-based morals:
To my understanding a deontologist judges an action irrelative of the ...
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Space and time in Kant and space and time in physics
From the Kantian perspective, what would be the relationship between our intuitions of space and time (which form the structure of subjective experience and are not things that exist outside of human ...
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How does Kant treat the sublime in the Anthropology compared with the Third Critique?
Is Kant treating the sublime consistently in the third critique and Anthropology? In other words, what are the differences being addressed in these empirical and transcendental inquires regarding the ...
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Renovating transcendental idealism
In the 20th century, philosophers such as P.F Strawson and Paul Guyer attempted to disentangle (what they viewed as) the unsavory components of Kant's system of transcendental idealism from (what they ...
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