PHIL343 Lecture Notes - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Copernican Revolution, Wiht

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

Document Summary

Immanuel kant we know appearances but we do not know things in themselves. We don"t have genuine knowledge of transcendant matters. Kant looks then at the most a priori conditions for knowing anything, but we must remember that each individual"s experience of those conditions might be distorted by further complications in subjectivity and embodiment and sociality etc etc. Kant is trying to move us away from the concern with the way things are in themselves. We must orient our being in the world according to our knowledge of the universal and necessary conditions of the possibility of experience ahead of any a posteriori understanding of how the world works in itself. Schranken - limitations in a negative sense. thinking about the limits of our possible knowledge in this sense is. Platonic: being mortal and embodied limits me from knowing reality is in itself. the limits of my experience are negative limitations. You must escape the cave, escape the schranken.