PHIL-247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Meta-Analysis
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If we are already searching for such we have given up on believing it to be mad; thus. The goal of comprehensive knowledge of truth would also include complete self: an absolute knowing including absolute self-consciousness and knowing of identity. What is philosophy: a question which the study of philosophy must address (unlike biology); its meta-study (of what is philosophy) is a part of the study itself (philosophy) Philosophers thus as lovers of wisdom rather than wise themselves (absurd to imply philosophers are akin to god in being all knowing and wise outside of time). Hegel in contrary claims that philosophers are wise, inclu. himself. Kant argues that the subject and object are related: we know the object in relation to its time and space (conditions) refers to a transcendental unity of aperception. This i grounds the forms of intuition. thus its contradictions in which neither side can be proven true.