PHI 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Philosophy, Dogma, A Priori And A Posteriori
17 Sep 2016
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Ideas vs concepts/intuitions: ideas derived from reason/thinking, concepts derived from understanding/knowing, concepts needs intuitions. You need that sense input is necessary to fill in the concept: intuitions + concepts = knowledge. Thinking vs knowing: thinking reason, knowing understanding. Unconditioned vs conditioned: conditioned determined by the senses, unconditioned things in/by themselves. Its like a hypothesis: thing in themselves vs the phenomenon. A phenomenon is something that shows themselves. Dogmatism vs criticism: dogmatism traditional metaphysics, pre-critical metaphysics, the type of a prior metaphysical reasoning. Metaphysics that hasn"t asked itself what its limits are: criticism understanding and defining the limitations, kant doesn"t want to get rid of metaphysics. Metaphysics needs to go through a process of self-questioning in order to evolve/improve. Theoretical: practical moral, kant"s issues is freedom. Freedom is one of the big metaphysical questions. Freedom vs nature: to be free is to not be determined by nature, reason determines our freedom, reason is beyond knowledge.
