PHIL343 Lecture Notes - Deontological Ethics, Pink Elephants, Psychopathy
7 Mar 2014
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Immanuel kant two issues to look at: the implications of kant"s hypothesis with respect to fundamental philosophical concepts and ideas. implications for "truth", "essence", what we mean by "being", the contrast between what we think and reality. It is ambiguous as to whether it is universal for everything or just for humans. See quotations on eclass that correspond to the following. Transcendental truth has to do with those structures that hold for all possible experience. empirical truth can be juxtaposed to empirical falsehoods, our empirical knowledge involves this interplay of getting it right and getting it wrong. But on the transcendental level, we can never get anything wrong because it. Is the filter through which we can know anything at all. He gives us a transcendental concept of essence. "essence is the rst internal principle of the condition of the possibility of things"
