PHIL 367 Lecture : PHIL 367 - Lecture #3 (Jan. 13th)
14 Jan 2012
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Kant: founder of german idealism; believes empiricism (hume) leads to. Skepticism, and that the rationalists (descartes) possess a dogmatic brand of metaphysics. Dismissive of the notion that the human mind has direct access to the nature of the world as itself (the neumenal world) Plato: we can"t have knowledge of the world as it appears to us at all, all is illusory. Intellectual intuition (direct access to the object of knowledge), for kant, is impossible. Instead, kant believes that one must curb and critique reason"s ambition to gain metaphysical knowledge of the world. Problem: one has to compare the idea of the world with an idea-less reality. Kant says that this entire assumption is wrong. Instead, for something to be an object, it has to conform to our minds. Think of the motion of the sun across the sky. On the assumption that this motion is real, one cannot understand the universe.
