PHIL343 Lecture Notes - Critique Of Pure Reason, Copernican Revolution, Medieval Philosophy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL343
• Professor: Robert Burch

Document Summary

Kant says that the method for natural sciences is not the protocols and procedures, but rather that the method consists in a prior interpretation of nature itself! That is the clue he takes, he applies that clue to the problem of metaphysics. The application: what is it, as it were, that we put into reality, or our. That gives him the idea to radicalize the model: Descartes made the rst step to this. he also has the arrow moving from object to subject. Descartes was saying the objects conform to our mode of cognition as rational beings. it involves clear and distinct ideas. that is our mode of cognition. all being, for descartes, must conform to clear and distinct ideas, including god. God must conform to clear and distinct ideas! God is a clear and distinct idea in this model: supremely perfect being. he would not create such an evil being, for that would be a aw in divine perfection.