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What is pure apperception?
Pure apperception is held to mean only that conscious- ness of a determinate object by a given mind entails the. possibility that this same mind can produce a true proposition.
What does Kant say about intuitions?
Kant regards an intuition as a conscious, objective representation—this is strictly distinct from sensation, which he regards not as a representation of an object, property, event, etc., but merely as a state of the subject.
What is the transcendental unity of apperception?
Transcendental apperception is the uniting and building of coherent consciousness out of different elementary inner experiences (differing in both time and topic, but all belonging to self-consciousness).
What is Immanuel Kant’s transcendental arguments?
According to Kant, a transcendental argument begins with a compelling first premise about our thought, experience, knowledge, or practice, and then reasons to a conclusion that is a substantive and unobvious presupposition and necessary condition of the truth of this premise, or as he sometimes puts it, of the …
What can we know with certainty Immanuel Kant?
According to Kant, we can never know with certainty what is “out there.” Since all our knowledge of the external world is filtered through our mental faculties, we can know only the world that our mind presents to us.
What did Kant say about empiricism?
Kant responded to his predecessors by arguing against the Empiricists that the mind is not a blank slate that is written upon by the empirical world, and by rejecting the Rationalists’ notion that pure, a priori knowledge of a mind-independent world was possible.
Was Kant a rationalist or empiricist?
Kant’s philosophy has been called a synthesis of rationalism and empiricism. From rationalism he takes the idea that we can have a priori knowledge of significant truths, but rejects the idea that we can have a priori metaphysical knowledge about the nature of things in themselves, God, or the soul.
What was Kant’s philosophy?
His moral philosophy is a philosophy of freedom. Without human freedom, thought Kant, moral appraisal and moral responsibility would be impossible. Kant believes that if a person could not act otherwise, then his or her act can have no moral worth.
What is good according to Kantian ethics?
In Kant’s terms, a good will is a will whose decisions are wholly determined by moral demands or, as he often refers to this, by the Moral Law. Human beings inevitably feel this Law as a constraint on their natural desires, which is why such Laws, as applied to human beings, are imperatives and duties.
How did Kant differentiate categorical from hypothetical imperative?
The main difference between hypothetical and categorical imperative is that hypothetical imperatives are moral commands that are conditional on personal desire or motive while categorical imperatives are commands you must follow, regardless of your desires and motives.
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