Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of the Practice of the Presence of God Gives reasons: The practice of the presence of God for Brother Lawrence started with birth record being destroyed in a fire during the Thirty Years War in which he fought as a young soldier. It was also in the war which he sustained a near fatal injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him quite crippled and in chronic pain for rest of his life. We know he was educated both at home and by the parish priest. He also spent…

This is very different from Kant’s view on taste in beauty. In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, he raises a new term, “disinterest”. For the word “interest”, Kant means “the satisfaction which we combine with the representation of the existence of an object”(38). And for “disinterest”, Kant said, “we wish only to know if this mere…

Immanuel Kant discusses many ethical systems which are based on a belief that the reason is the final authority of morality. The actions of any sort must come from a sense of duty dictated by reason and no action performed solely in obedience to the law or custom can be regarded as moral. Kant described two main systems of command given by reason. Hypothetical Imperative defined by Kant is the formula of the command of reason that represents an objective principle "in so far as it is…

According to the Design argument, 1) there is design in nature and 2) because design is the product of intelligence, 3) nature is the product of intelligence. Therefore, 4) God exists. Before truly divulging into Hume 's critique of the Design Argument, it must first be noted that this argument is an example of Hume 's Matter of Fact reasoning. This means that the argument is based solely on our experience of the world as a harmonious world of order and natural design.…

According to van Helmont, chemical reactions, and not heat, are the causes of digestion. It implies a rejection of Galen’s elementary qualities, which explains the reasons why van Helmont, as Henry points out, ‘bitterly regretted his university training as a waste of time’ (2002: 48). By contrast, for van Helmont, digestion was the result of the acting of certain kind of acid in the stomach producing fermentation. Yet…

included even lustful thoughts. Additionally, what Romeo and Juliet felt for each other was lust, not love - and they were in such a haste to get married only so that they could act upon those lustful thoughts. This whole play could be taken as a critique of the Catholic Church of the time and the lengths people went…

This supports the fact that love should come before any other factor in marriage. Austen subtly critiques the social views of that time by making the couple that follows them miserable “In as short a time as Mr. Collins's' long speeches would allow, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly…

Over the years Immanuel Kant approached the question , “What is being human?” from a variety of perspectives . The success of the physical and mathematical sciences inspired a demand for a science of human nature. Not only would a systematic knowledge of the person round out the circle of sciences, but, as Hume understood it, such a knowledge would place all other sciences on a secure basis. It is evident that all sciences have a relation greater or less to human nature”. Therefore the science…

Kant attributes Hume as his inspiration to the critique of pure reason as Hume’s work motivated him to prove Hume wrong. Specifically, Kant worked against Hume’s concept of causation. Where Hume found no necessity in causation nor of causation, Kant found 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.…

Kant on Food, Physical Satisfaction or Humanity Choice? Yuhang Guo 121684092@qq.com Munster University In western philosophy history, Kant’s topic on food was not enormous and indeed not a central issue in Kant scholarship, but it has its attention within the "duties to oneself". However, this has been traditionally overlooked and this lack of comprehension have been redressed, but again and again the disdain for food that had accompanied western thought from the outset won out. It was…