CGS HU 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Atomism, Pietism, Copernican Revolution
6 Apr 2016
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Two problems that come from modern science: atomism, newtonian physics the fixed laws of nature, because kant has radical empirical skeptical view. How explain that universal: the problem of believing in and justifying a metaphysical freedom given scientific determinism. Copernicus in the early 16th century had proven that the earth revolves around the sun even though our sense observation wants us to believe that it is a geocentric universe. We require experience in order to know. But because our minds make that stuff ordered and rational, those experiences come to us in an ordered and rational manner. Concepts without intuitions are empty, and intuitions without concepts are blind (1781) World that is mind-independent isn"t what really exists: all we know is what is already on our mind. Noumenal something known and understood (it that is possible) without using the sense to know and to understand it.
