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message 1: by Mark, The Failed Philosopher (new)

Mark Burns (TheFailedPhilosopher) | 167 comments Mod
Whether you agree with his that it was akin to a Copernican revolution in epistemology or Kant did change the way in which it was to be done forever. He was also highly influential in Ethical and Moral philosophy. There are, of course, blindingly obvious problems with Kant in terms of consistency so i'll make a few of them topics for discussion and/or just mention the things that cause problems and let the discussion flow, (I have snuck two of them in to that sentence).

Possible topics:

How well does Kant's epistemology square with his views on Science? (key words, Cause and effect)

Can you give a definition of the 'thing-in-itself'? (I have given one or two in the past, by collecting a few it may get very interesting)

How can the thing-in-itself become a representation without assuming any causality in it? How can it cause and affect without being causal?

Do you find it funny that Kant thought the thing-in-itself needed to be an unknown in terms of causality to protect the moral agency of the subject-in-itself? (possible coined that or it was used by Fichte).

Fichte saw the 'thing-in-itself ' as self defeating in this purpose because it still kept an external something as the basis of experience and, as such, still lead to determinacy. Do you think his point that making the object...vague or blurry...still doesn't remove the object as a cause?


message 2: by Mark, The Failed Philosopher (new)

Mark Burns (TheFailedPhilosopher) | 167 comments Mod
I can give a brief synopsis of the epistemology if someone else feels like giving one of his Ethics and Aesthetics? (this post will be deleted once decided.)


message 3: by Dmitry (new)

Dmitry (dmitry_sokolov) I do not feel confident enough to speak about Kant's Ethics and Aesthetics, but I'd like to suggest one more topic to discussion: Kant and history.
Albeit it is not fundamentally significant piece in Kantian thought, there's no doubt that Kant was interested in philosophical understaning of history (see his article of 1784 for example). What is more interesing, his plan for "universal history" (taken from latter article) remnained higly influental and cast a shadow on Hegel's theory of historical development.


message 4: by John (new)

John | 41 comments Kant distinguished the moral sphere- in the individual from the political arena of conflicting wills- maybe to power?


message 5: by John (new)

John | 41 comments Kant was rt in one sense to live in the W is to categorize/ structure it into order where what happens can be explained either by Sc., Religion, art:literature, etc. A total chaotic W is a non starter!


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