Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Key Concepts Explained
Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: A Breakdown
5 – Theory of Knowledge (Tema): The structure of the Critique of Pure Reason (KRV) has three parts: transcendental aesthetic, transcendental analytic, and transcendental dialectic.
- Transcendental Aesthetic: “Beauty” refers to sensitivity, a faculty of knowledge. More precisely, the Transcendental Aesthetic examines the sensitive conditions of knowledge. We receive a tremendous amount of sensitive intuitions, information packets that are not themselves knowledge.
Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: Trials, Science, and Experience
Trials:
The “Critique of Pure Reason” is Kant’s attempt to determine whether mathematics, physics, and metaphysics are sciences. This begins by analyzing the elements of all knowledge, concluding the existence of trials. Judgment is any relationship between subject and predicate in the form “S is P”.
Types of Trials:
Kant provides a double classification of judgments: first, separating judgments depending on the relationship of subject and predicate (analytical or synthetic), and second, as they relate
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In this text, the author explains that there are three fundamental moral principles on which economic relations are based. These principles occur in all human societies, are combined with each other, and are always present in varying degrees.
Communism
In relation to communism, the author defines it as any human relationship that operates under the principle of “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs” (*). The author begins by stating that previously there was a dominant
Read MoreUnderstanding Reality and Knowledge: A Philosophical Approach
What is Happiness?
Contact with reality is the reality of detection. It is established within reality through the transmission of other people, or systematic tradition.
Types of Knowledge
- Common knowledge
- Scientific knowledge
- Technical knowledge
- Philosophical knowledge
- Artistic knowledge
- Religious knowledge
What is the Philosophy of Science?
The philosophy of science was formerly thought to be the fundamental structure of reality that science shows us.
But now, if we use the notions of modern science, philosophy
Read MoreKarl Marx: Anthropology, Alienation, and Capitalism
Anthropology According to Karl Marx
According to Marx, man is a natural, material being, similar to animals, but in open construction. Man is, above all, an active being, and this activity takes place at work. Unlike animals, man can interpret, use, and reconstruct nature. Animals use; men create. We call this act productive work, the practice by which man relates to nature. Work is also the activity that relates man to others, demonstrating that man is a social being. However, the essence of man
Read MoreFeminist Perspectives on Womanhood, Equality, and Rights
Feminist Perspectives on Womanhood
Key Thinkers and Concepts
The notion of WOMAN is central to all authors studied in this course. This analysis explains how they articulate a conceptualization of womanhood as related to equality, freedom, rights, education, sexuality, work, religion, independence, difference, subjectivity, and politics.
The notion of womanhood is perhaps the most relevant issue that feminism can cover. Because of this, all authors analyzed throughout this semester have a clear notion
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