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Kant going against rationlists, empiricsts. |
Going against rationlists by acknowledging the importance of experience, going against empiricists by acknowledging the way the mind influences the way we see the world |
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Kant on the world |
We cannot know what the world is like in itself. Distinction between the thing itself vs the thing as it appears to us.
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Kant's Limits of Knowledge |
There is no knowledge to be gained on the big questions of philosophy. The part cannot have knowledge of the whole. |
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Kant on reason |
When reason falls short, faith fills in. |
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Kant Practical Postulates |
Faith fills in to answer 1. Immortality of the soul 2. The existance of God 3. Human free will Knowledge via faith not reason
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Kant on Ethics: Right and Wrong |
The difference between right and wrong is a matter of reason and inherent to us. Ethics are preloaded in the mind. |
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Kant's Categorical Imperative |
ACT AS IF THE MAXIM OF YOUR ACTION WERE TO BECOME THROUGH YOUR WILL A UNIVERSAL LAW |
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Kant on acting morally |
Only when acting purely out of duty is an action moral. Only when you know you are acting in accordance to the moral law are we acting freely. |
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Nietzsche as a philosopher/morality |
No attempt to create a system, morality is not given from the outside, but created by us. |
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Nietzsche on western thought |
i. Christian morality:all positive christian values are rejected ii. Tradition of secular morality: all these systems are abstractions from the individual case. Human greatness is rare iii. Everyday Morality: decidedly undemocratic iv. Socratic tradition from ancient Greece: Turns against this... Socrates killed the art of tragedy. |
