SRS 2393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Immanuel Kant, Individualism, Intentionality
19 Jan 2017
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Class #3: death in the age of anxiety. Modernity : defined in opposition to the supernatural/ the invisible. Philosopher (1724-1804) paved the way for triumph of physics over metaphysics. Phenomena: that which we can know by our minds and senses. Noumena: the thing in itself"; no access to this it is outside our knowledge. People are conscious purposeful beings in an unconscious purposeless universe. We seem to receive two messages from our existential situation: Strive, give oneself to the quest for meaning. Know that the universe is entirely different to that quest. Natural world infused with spirit; our ancestors continued the relationship with the spirit world through visions and dreams. Whatever possesses a soul = a subject. A subject has a pov or perspective". All animated life has the capacity of conscious intentionality and agency. Interconnectedness of all beings, visible and invisible, in the same socio-cosmic medium.
