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The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.
The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.
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37 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2011
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Podcast episode
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Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge. When rightly employed, the perceptual and cognitive powers match up the right way with the real world and ground the knowledge-claims of the developed sciences. However, there is a strong tendency to stretch these processes beyond the permissible boundaries and seek what Kant refers to as "transcendental ideas" that go beyond the realm of actual or possible experience.
Released:
Mar 16, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (8)
Idealisms and their refutations: Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible. by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason