PHIL 367 Lecture : PHIL 367 - Lecture (Feb. 6th)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 367
• Professor: Susan Judith Hoffmann

Document Summary

Attempts to finish transcendental idealism, believes that freedom can definitely be attained. Begins with natural man, but very different from rousseau (really?) Believes that it is a communal body that is established by force, and that to transform the natural state to a moral state, there is a prerequisite of an aesthetic state. This is because that aesthetics is the only thing that is pure in the human condition. Art is the beauty and purity that morality seeks to attain. But it must be teased out -> education! The problem with modern humanity is that man is either too savage (too influenced by the sense impulse) or too abstract (too influenced by the formal impulse. ) The first drive of the self is to have form, and the second is to give matter to form. These impulses interact (xiv, xv), ideally in a way so that both can function at a maximum, without both overpowering the other.