HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: German Idealism, Transcendental Idealism, Enlightened Absolutism
17 Apr 2017
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German idealism: interested in expanding territory pray on emerging stakes, seven years" war: new focus of colonial empires (france & russia, cameralism: science of public administration rise of bureaucracy, method. Topped by leader with significant power: monarch to improve society: faith impact: no real concept of national church. Extreme empiricism: sense experience, true knowledge achieved. Modifications, variations: rise of math: observations, galileo and newton sense experience, form principle. Reason and orientation: bias of sense: can deceive us, bacon, sensationalism: locke, everything is experiments: experience and mental process, threat to empiricism: reason, try to endure principles that can happen: cause and effect. Objective reality, can we know it: subjective: different sensory perceptions of the world, distortions. How do we get to that objective: kant: no. Mental structures to understand knowledge, filters: causation mental structure helps figure out reality. May not be in reality, but still a category that helps.
