PHIL 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Categorical Imperative
30 May 2016
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Reminder: playing baseball intuitively physics yes complicated. The mind is active and it contributes to the nature of our experience. Perception: our organs shape the nature of our experience; in fact, perception itself is already an active organization of sensation. Raw data from your brian synthesizes eyes: pinpoints of light data in 3d. The very nature of reason itself contributes to our thinking and experience. These are the 2categories of the mind. These make experience possible because they are constitutive of all experience. Without these filters, our experience would be chaotic nonsense or completely impossible. Time and space are not revolutionary; but to say they are imposed by reason is revolutionary. Kant thinks that the categories of the mind make possible a priori, synthetic claims. For example: every change has a cause , every object has properties , His claims are not proven by observation; the same time they are not true by definition(or else they would be analytic. )
