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Is "Gewißheit" (certainty or so) accessible to everyone according to Kant?
So during an argument about the spirit of the enlightenment era, which massively influenced modern science, if I'm not mistaken, I was arguing with someone else about the following key question:
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Confusion about Allison's argument regarding Kant's claim of the syntheticity of an expression of the synthetic principle
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant once expressed his synthetic principle in such a manner:
"The synthetic proposition, that every different empirical consciousness must be combined into a ...
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Per Kant's theory of radical evil/religion, is belief in individual saviors the result of a corrupt subconscious process?
Early enough on in the Religion, he does say:
Now there appeared at a certain time among these very people, when they were feeling in full measure all the ills of an hierarchical constitution, and ...
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Are translations of Kant problematic because they lose conceptual precision?
How good are the translations of Kant in various languages? What are the experiences of those who have read Kant in languages other than German, but are native German speakers and have studied Kant ...
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Abhidharma dharmas compared with Kantian categories
I have been reading SEP articles in alphabetical order and came across a very interesting article on the school of Abhidharma.
According to the texts, it splits sentient experience into many ...
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Kant acknowledges physical needs as well as moral law, but has he adequately explained why one should win out over the other?
Theorem II, Book 1, of the Critique of Practical Reason acknowledges finite beings, as part of physical nature, and that they have desires and needs, specifically a need to be happy. But the Critique ...
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Does Kant anywhere "rationalize" noumena on, say, moral grounds?
I ask in the context of reading various "new realists" or "objective oriented ontologists”. To my reading, many of these thinkers would like to return to Kant's attempt to unify both ...
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Self-duality (in category theory) and advaita (non-duality in metaphysics)
In category theory, there are self-dual objects, where A ≅ A∗ (A is isomorphic to its dual), with the strict, but possibly non-coherent, case being when A equals A∗ (see Selinger[??]). In some ...
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Why does Kant say that pictorial art is burdensome to recall and not as agreeable as music?
The context for the question comes from the Critique of Judgment. From §53, 5:330
If . . . one estimates the value of the beautiful arts in terms of the culture that they provide for the mind and ...
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If the three primary formulations of the categorical imperative are successive refinements (per Allen Wood), why doesn't Kant mention this later?
If there is an ordering to the UL (universal law), H (humanity), and LO (law unto oneself) formulae, such that UL < H < LO, then wouldn't Kant have thought, in the Religion, that putting the ...
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What would be a (neo-)Aristotelian but also (neo-)Kantian position on patience vs. cowardice in relation to sabotage/rebellion against the state?
By "neo-Aristotelian" I mean mainly Aquinas' point of view, but also in a way Kant's (to the extent that Kant partly continued, or did not entirely repudiate, Aristotle's ethics). I know ...
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Is it important "whether concepts are defined logically or empirically" for a priori or posteriori?
I'm confused whether concepts are defined logically or empirically in order to determine if a proposition is a priori or a posteriori.
Apple is a fruit.
The sun radiates heat.
Paris is the capital ...
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Can we apply Barcan's deontic logic to the interpretation of Kant's radical-evil talk?
In the SEP entry on Ruth Barcan Marcus, they discuss her take on the issue of moral dilemmas and deontic logic:
The inevitability of guilt is not for Marcus a tragic conclusion, as guilt and the ...
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Confusion regarding Kant's "Table of Transcendental Concepts of Reason" in Prolegomena
I am currently reading Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Edited by Gary Hatfield, and I came across a passage in the "Appendix to pure natural science" that references a "...
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The fourth-person perspective re: neo-Kantian ethics
Christine Korsgaard makes much of the first-/third-person distinction in arguing about the proper standpoint from which to engage in practical reasoning (see e.g. Cummiskey[11] for an overview). ...
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