Kant vs Hume: in verse! How Hume's Fork inspired Kant's famous Transcendental Idealism

A quick, light-hearted, informative dip into how Kant resolved the battle between Empiricists and Rationalists. Hume's Fork is explained. And Kant explores the world of noumena - a key step on the road to his work on the Thing in Itself.
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[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

You did an OUTSTANDING job on this video. The whole presentation. It probably has to be the best introduction to Kant I've ever seen. So frequently when watching a philosophy video, something irks me. Whether it's the person's voice, manner of presentation, their ego etc. But I felt this video was of superior quality.
Looking now, I am surprised to see so few views. Keep it up and you'll skyrocket.
To the things in-themselves!

[@philosoverses]

👍thanks!

[@KenshoBeats]

This rhyme is a true thing in itself, beautiful! I don’t believe there’s a more effective way to convey information 🙏🏼

[@philosoverses]

Thank you!

[@Rorshacked]

Just found your channel. Wow this is incredible, could not be more impressed and truly learned something about Kant/transcendental idealism. Thanks for doing this!

[@philosoverses]

That's great to hear - cheers!👍

[@movethedota]

This is incredible. Well, done! Do you write the script yourself or use an AI tool to assist you?

[@philosoverses]

No AI, it's all human - thank you! 👍

[@DavidBivol]

I love your video style, thank you !

[@philosoverses]

Cheers!👍

[@finanyemane7407]

I love your presentation. Keep up the good work, kan’t wait for more videos from you.

[@philosoverses]

haha, thanks!👍

[@Dayglodaydreams]

It would have been slightly better if Hume's fork "Phenomenon of Ideas" and "Matters of Fact" were stated.

[@rev.stephena.cakouros948]

This is the stuff no one needs to live a full and compete life. It is philosophy a lot about words and little about life. .
"These philosophers could not influence their own neighborhood but this one man Jesus filled the world with men that loved righteousness and no longer feared death." [Athanasius]

[@JK-ji3kl]

Cult leaders do unfortunately look to influence people's lives

[@edwardlawrence5666]

Absolutism and exaggeration crashes onto the Scylla and Charybdis of life. Observation is perspectival, we build knowledge by integrating and building on all those perspectives. If it works, then it works.

[@Brklyn-dd9yo]

Good work

[@philosoverses]

Thanks! 👍

[@evelcustom9864]

I wonder what Kant would think of things like radio waves, electrons, radioactivity, or other things we cannot perceive directly but have found ways to measure. Would he consider those part of the phenomenal world or the numenal? Surely the readouts on our Geiger counter are part of the phenomenal world, but the waves themselves?

[@philosoverses]

Good question! For what it’s worth, I reckon that yes, Kant would say we perceive the Geiger counter readouts as phenomena, while the waves themselves are noumena, beyond the reach of our perceptions.

[@evelcustom9864]

@@philosoverses that is an interesting idea and I wonder how he would have interpreted that, since his basic idea was that we have no ability to perceive or interpret the numeral world, and yet, these technologies do give us some capacity to cross that barrier.

[@philosoverses]

How does a noumenon get translated into a phenomenon or a set of phenomena? I don’t think Kant had an answer to this. Indeed, if he did, then surely we’d know more about noumena and they wouldn’t be so unknowable?

[@jonfobes8448]

Excellent!

[@philosoverses]

Thank you! 👍

[@kevtherev8194]

impressive

[@philosoverses]

cheers! 👍

[@cameroncarter6789]

This is cool. Elementary but cool. Can you make more complex videos

[@philosoverses]

Thank you. By 'more complex' - do you mean philosophically? (Answer: Maybe...) Or visually? (A: Maybe - if there's a quick'n'easy bit of software out there!)

[@garbhanmyles]

I am completely confused as to how Kant formulated his theory of the noumena if it is completely out of bounds to all human thought, imagination or any hint of cognition. How did he come to this is that is the case?

[@philosoverses]

I think it’s a result of him taking a look at the long-held idea of there being a ‘real’ world and an ‘apparent’ world but then deciding to explore how the extent of our knowledge is based not on what is out there, but on our own intellectual equipment. The notion of noumena, things utterly out of the range of human cognition, is an imaginative leap made possible by seeing things from this fresh angle.

[@garbhanmyles]

@@philosoverses Thanks for that. Interesting that you describe his ability to approach this as “an imaginative leap”. Could it not be though that it is all a play of imagination in a way where both phenomena and noumea are completely illusory. How could we know any of these dualistic concepts exist for certain?

[@philosoverses]

Fair point - and people like Fichte and Hegel were soon disagreeing with Kant, which I guess is what makes philosophy stimulating, seeing the different approaches different people take.

[@garbhanmyles]

@@philosoverses thanks very much for your comments. Good food for thought.

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

He stood outside while they gathered in a house that reflected a double bound two world approach to experiential reality.

[@TomCarberry413]

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly
Man got to sit and to wonder "why why why?"
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land
Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

[@philosoverses]

👍So it goes.

[@TotallyNiceDay]

You should write children’s books

[@philosoverses]

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[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

You should not write anything

[@smithscott1700]

If it didn't rhyme I'd watch it, but it does, so I can't.

[@matthewbrunell413]

Of course Hume's Fork doesn't apply to itself as it cannot be directly observed or proven rationally.

[@simon_faucher]

Kant can’t