PHI 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Critical Philosophy, Ant-Zen, Immanence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 3382
• Professor: Jeffrey Reid

Document Summary

Transcendental dialectic: question asking initially is, how is what can be called. "transcendental error" possible: if transcendental forms are universal, how can they produce illusions (schema, things can appear to us, which are unjustified and illusory. Makes distinction between two realms or levels of experience: one is the immanent level, one is the transcendent level, when he says transcendent, he"s not talking about transcendental. Makes distinction in terms of principles: we are discussing reasons ability to come up with principles, because reason generalizes into principles, he"s really concerned with the transcendent principles. Imminent: are the principles of reason that are applied to the understanding which is tied into experience. Transcendent: detached from the world, do not apply to the world. Universality and necessity, these are characteristics of reason: we can never develop an idea or a concept of necessity and universality separate from the world.