Please do more of these short summary sized videos, always come back to you're 30 minuet lecture on Hegelianism, they are incredibly helpful! Thank you
Humans are a product of evolution & it seems to me, then, that it's extremely hard to argue that the a priori concepts have travelled with humans through the entirety of evolution. Therefore, are they the result of our experience in evolution from the appearance of the great apes to our evolution into rational beings... So, it may be said that we project Time & Space, but is that because Time & Space have " imprinted " themselves, if you will... upon us in the evolutionary process? IDK... Kant is very hard to understand, and in reading him, I don't get an answer concerning how we get the a priori concepts, and that is probably me not understanding him... Or ... maybe he does answer when he rejects Idealism and says that... " inner experience is only possible on the presupposition of outer experience. " Evolution?? Is it the bridge between Hume & Kant? That is to say... Hume's proposal that habit creates knowledge & Kant's a priori concepts... may converge in the millions of years since the emergence of the great apes, to the appearance of rational humanity...
Thanks. Why do we talk about the "problem" of solipsism here? Because it leads to potentially immoral actions? It doesn't seem like solicism is at all logically inconsistent, and we can also not prove or disprove it. Is it just this undetermined state that irks people?
For Kant, and the later German Idealists -- yes, solipsism poses a moral dilemma (morality entails others) as well as epistemological problems (knowledge entails more than just the self but also others). "The Other" is the great shadow the looms over German Idealist philosophy, reaching its climax in Hegel, then is materialized in Marx. The rest, as they say, is history. In order to live the moral life (one of Kant's major priorities in his philosophical writings) and to have a life of secured knowledge, overcoming solipsism was a necessary thing to do. But common sense philosophy would do just fine -- no one really believes in solipsism, solipsism is a fake intellectual crisis (common in philosophy). People live their lives knowing others exist and that they must live with the reality of neighbors.
the problem is that indeed, as well as the de-personalization, objectification, and ultimate dehumanization which has occurred and persists in 'post-modern' civilization. the reduction of virtually every response to others, to stimuli, to practically any and all phenomena/material to the conditioned response of a 'pavlovian dog' - even ideas and the very processes of thought and experience are disfigured by such caustic and utterly banal analysis. beyond freedom and dignity, anyone? thanks but, no. better to appreciate life as it takes place in a spirit of enthusiastic wonder, discovery, and love. joy and truth, wisdom and peace, are the rewards of the seeker. p.s. as a side note: the preoccupation of 'moderns' w/ the conceptual theories of 'evolution' and our existence being the result of 'randomness' - may i beg to use my own discernment here - when one says evolution, does one indicate precisely from what? the primordial soup or the fishes? or perhaps the chicken or the egg? the apes or the snakes (reptilian brain as a residual, you know)? rather is one referring to the stars (which are largely composed of gases, of which residuals aplenty are today quite commonly found)? as for evidence regarding 'evolution' (the very idea is absurd), there has NEVER been one solitary shred for it, period. and RANDOM? the word has no meaning or significance outside its own definition: random means random. no intent, power. intelligence, creativity, thought, self-will, attribution, purpose, design, plan, outcome, goal, reason, scheme, order, sense or sensation, pleasure or place, fruit or vegetable, well, it does NOT mean anything other than what it MEANS. so much for 'random'. Kant is somewhere in Heaven, where ALL the real GENTLEMEN are (and shall one day go). Immanuel Kant for President of the United States of America!!!
Please do more of these short summary sized videos, always come back to you're 30 minuet lecture on Hegelianism, they are incredibly helpful! Thank you
Humans are a product of evolution & it seems to me, then, that it's extremely hard to argue that the a priori concepts have travelled with humans through the entirety of evolution.
Therefore, are they the result of our experience in evolution from the appearance of the great apes to our evolution into rational beings...
So, it may be said that we project Time & Space, but is that because Time & Space have " imprinted " themselves, if you will... upon us in the evolutionary process?
IDK...
Kant is very hard to understand, and in reading him, I don't get an answer concerning how we get the a priori concepts, and that is probably me not understanding him...
Or ... maybe he does answer when he rejects Idealism and says that... " inner experience is only possible on the presupposition of outer experience. "
Evolution??
Is it the bridge between Hume & Kant?
That is to say... Hume's proposal that habit creates knowledge & Kant's a priori concepts... may converge in the millions of years since the emergence of the great apes, to the appearance of rational humanity...
Bravo! Thank you!
love your vigor, your work is really beautiful.
Thanks. Why do we talk about the "problem" of solipsism here? Because it leads to potentially immoral actions? It doesn't seem like solicism is at all logically inconsistent, and we can also not prove or disprove it. Is it just this undetermined state that irks people?
For Kant, and the later German Idealists -- yes, solipsism poses a moral dilemma (morality entails others) as well as epistemological problems (knowledge entails more than just the self but also others). "The Other" is the great shadow the looms over German Idealist philosophy, reaching its climax in Hegel, then is materialized in Marx. The rest, as they say, is history. In order to live the moral life (one of Kant's major priorities in his philosophical writings) and to have a life of secured knowledge, overcoming solipsism was a necessary thing to do. But common sense philosophy would do just fine -- no one really believes in solipsism, solipsism is a fake intellectual crisis (common in philosophy). People live their lives knowing others exist and that they must live with the reality of neighbors.
@@PaulJosephKrause I suppose it's also the old question of what it means to know.
the problem is that indeed, as well as the de-personalization, objectification, and ultimate dehumanization which has occurred and persists in 'post-modern' civilization. the reduction of virtually every response to others, to stimuli, to practically any and all phenomena/material to the conditioned response of a 'pavlovian dog' - even ideas and the very processes of thought and experience are disfigured by such caustic and utterly banal analysis. beyond freedom and dignity, anyone? thanks but, no. better to appreciate life as it takes place in a spirit of enthusiastic wonder, discovery, and love. joy and truth, wisdom and peace, are the rewards of the seeker. p.s. as a side note: the preoccupation of 'moderns' w/ the conceptual theories of 'evolution' and our existence being the result of 'randomness' - may i beg to use my own discernment here - when one says evolution, does one indicate precisely from what? the primordial soup or the fishes? or perhaps the chicken or the egg? the apes or the snakes (reptilian brain as a residual, you know)? rather is one referring to the stars (which are largely composed of gases, of which residuals aplenty are today quite commonly found)? as for evidence regarding 'evolution' (the very idea is absurd), there has NEVER been one solitary shred for it, period. and RANDOM? the word has no meaning or significance outside its own definition: random means random. no intent, power. intelligence, creativity, thought, self-will, attribution, purpose, design, plan, outcome, goal, reason, scheme, order, sense or sensation, pleasure or place, fruit or vegetable, well, it does NOT mean anything other than what it MEANS. so much for 'random'. Kant is somewhere in Heaven, where ALL the real GENTLEMEN are (and shall one day go). Immanuel Kant for President of the United States of America!!!
Could you do stefan zweig?
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