POLI 300B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Perpetual Peace

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 300B
• Professor: Rob Walker

Document Summary

Poli 300b freedom in the modern world. The subject ie individual works inside of itself and understands the world outside of itself. Dogma two fundamental splits between man and world. Ka(cid:374)t says you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t trust reason in any transcendental sense. Ka(cid:374)t says you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449), there"s (cid:374)o (cid:449)ay of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g, all skepti(cid:272)is(cid:373), (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t trust your se(cid:374)ses. Empirical impressions and your reasoning capacity are the only two things you have in the world. T(cid:449)o te(cid:373)ptatio(cid:374)s, ka(cid:374)t says do(cid:374)"t go there, they"re dog(cid:373)ati(cid:272), your only resour(cid:272)e is critique. Human freedom depends on living in the middle of a big gap (subjectivity) and on either side a huge in-cementable gap (category/world) (sensation/world) You (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t go to either pla(cid:272)e (cid:449)ithout gi(cid:448)i(cid:374)g up hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) freedo(cid:373) Can be described as autonomy or self-determination. It is the un charter national self-determination. The world works because you think you are free.