Status Updates From Lectures on Metaphysics

ooooo now I see why I despised the ontology so much in other works, because some of it doesn't make any fucking sense. are you telling me these old men made some of this stuff up?

finished Metaphysics L1, the first of two lectures I need to read to beat this level. I am now really itching to read Kant himself, and not just lecture notes

I think they key to reading through some of this stuff is if you can't grasp it the second time around just move on

"If through a supernatural revelation we were to become immediately conscious of all our obscure representations and of the whole extent of the soul at once, then we might be astonished at ourselves and at the treasure in our soul, of what abundance it contains of cognitions in itself."

strong Kant x Leibniz ship in this book

"But is there only one metaphysical world? Cannot the existence of a thing be thought without connection? Can there not be single things which are not at all conjoined with these wholes? Can there not be wholes of series which stand in no connection with this world?"

What makes representation possible, a priori.

Kant and Heidegger have the following in common: their lectures can be more abstruse than their major works. Be it the Critiques or Being and Time, they're more straightforward

Kant and Heidegger have the following in common: their lectures can be more abstruse than their major works. Be it the Critiques or Being and Time, they're more straightforward