POLI 1001 Lecture : POLI 1001 NOTES 20160914
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The human being is not extraordinary at all. No particular ordinary value: homo noumenon refers to the capacity human beings have to reason and in particular to reason morally. That capacity sets us apart from all other creatures. Combats the thought that humans are wanting of pleasure and averted to pain. The ability to put other things ahead of self-interest is what sets us apart. Categorical imperative main iteration of this is to act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it would become universal law. Kant on politics: politics are the legal realization of moral ends. We as subject look at the world as a collection of objects. We call this the correspondence theory of truth, because perceptions correspond to an objective reality. We as a subject bring the world of conceptions of time, distance, shape, causality, color, etc.
