RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Teleology, A Priori And A Posteriori, Iceberg
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Unusual to have a documentation of objects on desk at the time of death. Shape of time allows us to get a clear understanding just thinking about time is not productive: a priori conditions of knowledge (kant): absolute and needed for any. Take on specific meaning trajectory/ teleology kind of knowledge formation/ imagination, not subject to historical change: teleological model: teology because telos aim to reach something. Freud"s notion is ahistorical (cid:523)opposed to idea of historic time- linear, has. Prehistory past ----------------present ------------- > future god (cid:523)telos" aim(cid:524) beyond historical time, but can never arrive in religious terms, attainment of god. Whatever happens first can be a cause for something in the (teleology/ linear) future. Specific moment it occurs at is significant to attribute meaning to it. Attempts to speak of radical breaks/ revolutionary events. When model came into being, american and french revolution historical events thought more in terms of development and how things unfold.
