PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanuel Kant, Intellectual Freedom, Instrumental And Value Rationality
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*office hours: friday 11-1 / room: 523 jhb. *final exam: last 2 weeks materials 2 questions (similar to assignment) 1724: born in konigsberg, east prussia (now kaliningrad, russia) Read works by christian wolff, gottfried leibniz, isaac newton. 1770: after 15 years as unsalaried privatdozent, appointed chair in logic and metaphysics at the. *kant: he initiated transcendental philosophy" ( transcendental : of or relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm. It is a word derived from the scholastic, designating there the extra-categorical attributes of beings, and for immanuel kant it is the investigation on the conditions of possibility of something. Transcendental philosophy includes philosophies, systems, and approaches that describe the fundamental structures of being, not as an ontology (theory of being), but as the framework of emergence and validation of knowledge of being. ) *hegel: he was the first thinker who said history is central for philosophy.
