A priori and a posteriori

Kant’s theories are based around Deontological ethics which revolves around our duties. His categorical imperatives are composed of three different formulations, but I am only going to be focusing on the first two for this paper. These theories, in my opinion, are too demanding of us and irrational. You cannot categorize everything as he did because it’s an unreliable method. Kant sees everything in black and white and the world is too complex to be divided into that, there is a lot of grey area…

The Uncertainty of Experience. When Kant justifies the possibility of a priori in sense perception, he uses the notion of time and space to argue that the sense perception already contains a priori and the time and space are underlying the experience. Then, Kant believes the certainty of experience based on the time and space. “Time and space are, therefore, two sources of knowledge, from which, a priori, various synthetical cognitions can be drawn”, and “The sphere of phenomena is the only…

Felicity, Is it subjective or objective? Do people strive to attain happiness by means of their own understanding of the world? Can it be compared to reality, where we try to base our view of what is real and true as much as we are capable of through own perhaps incomplete reasoning? Likewise for happiness do we all devote our time to obtain that happiness as closely as possible, according to our own understanding or is it all just subjective? Have your heard of a cliché statements such as ‘Mind…

Name: Ali Yazdani Subject: Final Ethics paper Among different moral theories, Utilitarianism is one of the most known moral theories. This moral theory was established by Bentham later John Stuart Mill developed this theory to a wider extent in order to answer the critiques of utilitarianism. Through this theology the question of right and wrong is determined based on the consequence of an action. Utilitarianism similarly as other moral theories is not without criticism and one of the…

JC Mr. Hume I wish to discuss your theory of causation and necessary connection, which have become the subject of much controversy among later thinkers. I would like you to clear up many of the things that these philosophers believe are controversial about your work. But first, in order to do so I think it is only fair that we first clear up what your goals were in writing An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. DH I do agree that in order to best understand my theory it would be…

With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past 40 years, the future of society, economics, and creations is at a particular fulcrum point. We are at a threshold where in the next 20 to 40 years, AI can become the foundation of all functions of human life, whether it be legal advice, driving, cooking, or stock trading. The acquiescence of AI into society has the palpable potential to remove human-centered facets of life, ranging from the near removal of a human workforce, to…

Explain the aim and the argument (or one of the arguments) of the ‘transcendental deduction of the categories '. Emmanuel Kant wrote “The Critique of Pure Reason” where transcendental deduction falls under and is arguably one of his most difficult works. Of central focus in this essay is explaining the aim of the transcendental deduction of the categories with reference to one of the arguments proposed by Kant. Transcendental deduction aims to show how we can know that experience conforms to…

square that may exist in the future. So, indeed Socrates may certainly seem to be guiding the boy with leading questions, but it is entirely plausible that the example could be used to demonstrate, or even prove that human beings possess some form of a priori knowledge. The slave boy may not have been immediately able to come up with the correct answer without help or guidance; but the slave boy is able to recognize the truth of the geometric answer and the universally, and perhaps eternally…

causation necessary in both senses- otherwise no one would be able to navigate the world. However, Kant’s critique of Hume is much more general than causation, Kant through causation is asserting the existence of synthetic a priori judgements. Causation as a synthetic a priori principle asserts the necessity of and in causation as precondition to navigating the world. In his second Analogy, Kant presents the argument for the objective reality of cause and effect. Were one to accept Hume’s…

synthetic a priori because he was determined that we make these judgments, although there was a constant question of how these judgments are possible. A synthetic judgment, by description, is derived from familiarity but a priori entails independence of understanding. (Stumpf pg. 276) Kant illustrated that in several subjects such as: ethics, physics, mathematics, and metaphysics that we do make decisions including synthetics with a priori. For instance, 8 plus 3 equals 11 as judgment is a…