PSYC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noumenon, Immortal Souls, Immanuel Kant

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 212
• Professor: Mathieu Roy

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Rationalism: we can"t trust our senses at all, what matters is the realism of [ideal forms] that we can only know using our reason. Nativism/innatism: we are born already knowing the world (also supported by. Knowing something/learning is remembering something that we already knew. Our immortal souls are made of leftovers of a greater cosmos soul that had universal knowledge. We lost this knowledge when our souls were incarnated in our imperfect bodies. We must recover this knowledge by trying to remember what we forgot. Empiricism (17th century): knowledge is obtained by means of perceptual experiences. We cannot be born with knowledge in the world, instead we discover them through our senses. Locke made a distinction between simple and complex ideas. Cannot be reduced to, or defined by, anything else. Have to get into the mind by experience. Eg. the blueness of the color blue.