SOSC 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immanuel Kant, Laziness, Kantianism
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Social justice and law class 5 november 2nd, 2016. Talks about the prerequisites for social justice appropriate social characteristics are what informs social justice. He is very influential even before his death. By the time kant is (cid:449)(cid:396)iti(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:449)hat is e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) is (cid:449)as (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) popula(cid:396) Hoped to e(cid:374)d the e(cid:396)a of (cid:862)skepti(cid:272)is(cid:373)(cid:863) Need to marry the empirical (what is known to us through experience) with the rational (what is known to us through reason; innate ideas). Two things are important for knowledge- we need intuition and concepts. Intuition relates perceptual experience and your particular place in it: concepts- the general categories that we need to understand things, we need know previous things from experience. Philosophic movement of 18th century this time was known as the age of reason. There was also an outpour of human language. We are not living in an enlightened age but in an age of enlightenment.