CGS HU 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Practical Reason, Nathan Englander, Categorical Imperative
6 Apr 2016
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Movement away from reason and more towards subjective emphasis on feelings. Fully grounded in all science of time and christian belief/inheritance that god is benevolent and there is mortal soul that has free-will. Attended pietistic college with full intention to enter ministry: becomes exposed to sciences. Nebular hypothesis published in his natural history and theory of the heaven in 1755: all different bodies in solar system came from gases and dusts. Great humanist with all other education in classical literature, philosophy, languages, etc. Known as one of deepest thinkers of the enlightenment : progressive in much of thinking. Believes in the free and democratic use of reason to examine everything: does not matter how knowledgeable or sacred subject may be, must use reason to able to examine/understand/judge it. Reasoning appeals only to uncompelled agreement to those capable of reasoned judgment. Human reason by own self-discipline becomes part of philosophical reflection.
