PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Transcendental Idealism, Color Vision, Noumenon
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Lecture 4: kant"s second antinomy by prof. sven bernecker. Immanuel kant"s work exerted a major influence on virtually every area of philosophy. His main work is the critique of pure reason (1781/87: tries to figure out what and how much we can figure out by reasoning alone (pure reason) His life was fairly uneventful: never left his hometown, did not like to travel. At kant"s time, k nigsberg was part of the prussian empire. K nigsberg is a russian enclave sandwiched between poland and. 1st antinomy has no limits in space; both time beginning in time, and is also limited as regards space. Antithesis: the world beginning, and no it is infinite as regards and space. Thesis: time and space have a beginning and end. Antithesis: time and space have no beginning or end; infinite. Thesis: every object is composed of parts, nothing exists except the parts. Antithesis: nothing is made up of simple parts and the object.
