PHIL 249 Lecture 13: PHIL 249 Week 5
1 Mar 2016
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Week 5 - early modern moral theory: kant. Kant groundwork of the metaphysics of morals pp. Ideal/ material: divine, properties, numbers, mind, and laws of nature. G = ma => equation of force. Plato takes it that everything is informed by another in the ideal. Aristotle says there is no ideal heaven outside our world there is only our world. There needs to be an earthly theory, a material theory. Knowledge from the material realm a posteriori: knowledge of the senses. Knowledge from the ideal realm a prion: knowledge without reference. You do not need to check that to know it. Tabula rasa learn everything from the world. Aristotle apostrophe argument we must be born how to know. Knowing must be apprehending the truth that is already know to you. Phenomenal world the stuff we normally talk about is phenomenal but we can know the noumena like morality. Moral creatures can be found by tracking the law of nature.
