Coffee With Kant: Half An Hour Alone With The Thinker Of German Idealism: COFFEE WITH...

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Who Is Kant? What Is Kantism? Foundation of the metaphysics of customs main concepts criticism of pure reason foreword to the second edition introduction what is enlightenment?
Have you always wanted to know the ideas of the great thinkers of Humanity and never found the time to make it happen? Did it discourage you to think that it would take you years to know the fundamentals about the greatest authors? So this book is for you. Treasures for life, in less than the duration of a movie, the essentials of the most important ideologues in history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Dec 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201921927

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Coffee With Kant: Half An Hour Alone With The Thinker Of German Idealism

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COFFEE WITH KANT: HALF AN HOUR ALONE WITH THE THINKER OF GERMAN IDEALISM

First edition. December 2, 2021.

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ISBN: 979-8201921927

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COFFEE WITH KANT | HALF AN HOUR ALONE WITH THE THINKER OF GERMAN IDEALISM | WHO IS KANT?

Kant, Emmanuel

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COFFEE WITH KANT

HALF AN HOUR ALONE WITH THE THINKER OF GERMAN IDEALISM

WHO IS KANT?

Kant, Immanuel (1724 -1804): A German philosopher, he was influenced by the empiricist criticism of Hume, the German Enlightenment (Leibniz), Protestantism and Newton's physics. Considered the founder of German idealism, however, he criticized both Descartes' rationalism and Hume's empiricism, since he considered that both are forms of realism and argue that the subject who knows receives an already given object, that is, that the subject it just reflects the object. Kant, on the contrary, will maintain that the subject elaborates the object, because the experience rests on the transcendental self, which is the a priori synthesis. In this way, he sought an intermediate position between empiricism and rationalism. From the first he accepts that knowledge comes from an experience, that is, that it is a posteriori. However, it gives a very important role to the mind because it allows incorporating the sensations to the mental structures, allowing a priori knowledge. Lenin said of him: When K admits that a certain 'thing in itself', outside of ourselves, must correspond to the representation that we form of it, he is materialistic; when he declares it impossible to know this thing-in-itself, he becomes idealistic. His two key works were Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and Critique of Practical Reason (1788).

WHAT IS KANTISM?

Kantism: Philosophy of Kant and neo-Kantism, based on transcendental idealism and criticism. According to Kant, the intellect apprehends things from physical sensations, the phenomenon, but it can never grasp the deep reality of the external world, the noumenon, which is the object of metaphysics and is indemonstrable. Experience shows that man feels the need to act in accordance with the categorical imperative, based on freedom, the immortality of the soul and God.

Kant, Emmanuel

GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS

MAIN CONCEPTS

In the field of knowledge, Kant came to the conclusion that metaphysical objects (God, the soul, the world) cannot be known, because all human knowledge is limited to the sphere of experience, and these objects do not belong to this dimension. .

But Kant also warns that these matters are never indifferent to us, because even though we cannot know them, they interest us greatly. Kant seeks a solution to this ambiguity, although not in the field of knowledge but in that of ethics, in that of practical reason, as Kant calls reason insofar as it determines the action of man.

We do not know the absolute, but we have some contact with the absolute. This contact occurs in the moral conscience, that is, the conscience of good and evil, of what is just and what is unjust.

Moral conscience represents, according to Kant, the presence of something absolute in man, because moral conscience is the conscience of duty, that is, the conscience that commands absolutely, the conscience that orders unconditionally. What he commands, he commands without any restriction or condition. The moral conscience is the conscience of an absolute demand, of a demand that is not explained.

Nature is the realm of being, of things that simply are; instead, moral conscience is the realm of what should be.

In the domain of nature everything is conditioned according to causal laws. In the moral conscience