tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post1689883203960810880..comments2024-03-28T12:34:14.649-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Keith Ward on the Impact of KantVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-51114836615435356182009-10-22T18:17:59.278-07:002009-10-22T18:17:59.278-07:00Kant amazes at times, but only with certain reserv...Kant amazes at times, but only with certain reservations, and by understanding his assumptions, like this one:<br /><br /><i>All objects of any experience possible to us 'are nothing but appearances' (A491). </i><br /><br />That may sound profound at first. Then, considering many basic human experiences--say like tonight's Din-Din--one realizes there is a befuddling and obscure aspect about Kantian phenomenalism, which doesn't jibe with our experience as human-animals. That's not to say pure naturalism is the alternative--humans are capable of rationality-- but the need for Food (and other necessaries of life--like, shekels) does not reduce to mere appearance. <br /><br />Unlike the major empiricists--say Hobbes--Kant never seems to acknowledge the human body, or at best it is assumed as one of the givens of experience. He's fundamentally retrograde, anti-economic, anti-political. Indeed, Hobbes' criticisms of Descartes' incorporeality apply to Kant, with a few modifications.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-8793024512688499702009-10-22T10:50:36.152-07:002009-10-22T10:50:36.152-07:00Thank you for the link!!Thank you for the link!!amandalainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692253844016875427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-48490320086359154132009-10-20T11:43:30.720-07:002009-10-20T11:43:30.720-07:00There's some sword-crossing in there with a ce...There's some sword-crossing in there with a certain husband-and-wife philosophy of mind team that were, at least at the time, Allison's colleagues. Forget their names offhand.Victor Repperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-84266693077246112962009-10-20T11:42:23.024-07:002009-10-20T11:42:23.024-07:00Did you ever read Allison's essay Kant's R...Did you ever read Allison's essay Kant's Refutation of Materialism?" <br />Henry Allison, "Kant's Refutation of Materialism," The Monist 79 (April 1989) 190-209. It is also in his book Idealism and Freedom. <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6ajxMdPA1AC&pg=PP1&dq=%22idealism+and+freedom%22#v=onepage&q=&f=falseVictor Repperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-43266885228969986482009-10-20T09:56:09.717-07:002009-10-20T09:56:09.717-07:00Kant is amazing, my main regret is that I still ha...Kant is amazing, my main regret is that I still have never read past the first half of the first Critique, an amazing book. He is in my top five list.Blue Devil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045468316613818510noreply@blogger.com