PHI 2174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immanuel Kant, Christine Korsgaard, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
12 Jul 2016
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(5) immanuel kant (1724-1804) the foundations of the metaphysics or morals. Knowledge that is genuine and reliable comes from the mind and the principles of reason itself. Human doing = rational (rationalism, universal, objective, consistent, categorical, mind/soul, reason) + animal (empiricism, particular, subjective, contingent, hypothetical, physical/body, emotional). Most rationalism is categorized as continental philosophy. As opposed to much of coastal europe, which is characterized by its discovery of the. New world" and consequent empiricism, the bulk of europe is interior, not disposed to the age of discovery, like for instance, england. Interior/central europe lacked the sensory stimulation of much of coastal europe; like its physical situation, interior europe looked to inner discovery, as it were, in laying claim to real knowledge. Central europe deduced of knowledge intrinsically whilst coastal europe discovered it extrinsically. Rationalism: the theory of truth (epistemology) that holds that genuine knowledge is derived from reason alone. Famous rationalists: immanuel kant, rene descartes, plato, kurt godel, gottfried.
