PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Noumenon

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL102
• Professor: Nathan Kowalsky

Document Summary

Hegel: the legacy of kant, ka(cid:374)t the (cid:374)ou(cid:373)e(cid:374)a are u(cid:374)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)a(cid:271)le (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of the i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the tra(cid:374)s(cid:272)e(cid:374)de(cid:374)tal categories. Thus we do not know what reality is: critique of the noumena, by other german philosophers. It is contradictory to say that you can know unknowable things: causation is a transcendental category. There is no causation in the noumena, so the noumena cannot cause your perceptions: existence is a transcendental category. If all that is real is the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d, the(cid:374) (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to (cid:449)orr(cid:455) a(cid:271)out the li(cid:373)its of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) knowledge. Ideas are thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) k(cid:374)o(cid:449) thi(cid:374)gs as the(cid:455) are: there is absolute mind/spirit the sour(cid:272)e of ideas that see(cid:373) independent of minds, outside of your mind is absolute mind, summary: Why: what is our relation to the absolute mind/spirit, hegelian dialectic, the process consciousness takes to become more and more acquainted with the. Absolute: a series of triplets towards the absolute.