Introduction to Kant

• In a word, the goal is to criticize reason.

  • At the same time, it seems to be a criticism of believing in reason (blu3mo).

• As a premise, it is important to understand the relationship between British Empiricism and Continental Rationalism.

  • British Empiricism: based on what can be experienced
  • Continental Rationalism: based on thoughts in the mind
  • Something like that, I guess?
    • Critique of Reason is also a critique of rationalism.
    • A priori refers to something that is possessed without experiencing it empirically.
  • Kant integrated these two.

• Illusion

  • Appearance or prejudice that is different from the truth.
    • It’s a discussion that is also mentioned in the definition of virtual.
  • The assumption that there is an absolute truth/essence when talking about illusions is questionable (blu3mo).
  • Even before Kant, there was talk of empirical illusions.
    • Sensory illusions, for example.
  • Kant went beyond that and talked about transcendental illusions.
    • Doubts about reason and rational cognitive abilities.
    • It’s like saying there is bias, right?
    • It’s like claiming that There is Bias and it Cannot be Thought Objectively, so I Think with Atmosphere (blu3mo)(blu3mo).
    • Bacon’s Idols were the precursor to this, but Kant thoroughly explored it.

      • Hume went too far with that thoroughness.

        • What does that mean? I don’t understand what it means to go too far with thoroughness.
  • It doesn’t feel quite right to talk about these two separately (blu3mo).
    • It seems like they’re trying to say that they’re on different layers, but is that so…?
  • An example that emerged from the existence of transcendental illusions is antinomy.
    • When both truth and falsehood can be proven by reason.
    • Example 1: The question of whether time is infinite or finite.
      • Hmm, both “proofs” seem to have weak arguments.
        • There are various points to criticize, and I feel like it could be discussed more rigorously in mathematics or physics.
        • Well, but even if we push the criticism to its limits, there is still the possibility of having these points to criticize. Is that what is being criticized about reason?
          • But that reasoning is quite questionable.
      • So far, it seems like we’re only talking about the subtleties of Kant’s reason. (laughs)
        • Well, this is just one example/experience, and it seems like the discussion will continue from here.

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  • Transcendental Delusion