On The Ideal of Pure Reason
Kant’s chapter, “On the Ideal of Pure Reason,” best known for his critique of the ontological argument, has a greater, more expansive importance for the...
Kant’s chapter, “On the Ideal of Pure Reason,” best known for his critique of the ontological argument, has a greater, more expansive importance for the...
A reader encountering the second half of the Antinomies is likely to feel a certain sense of culmination, perhaps even that Kant’s response to the...
Concepts of Pure Reason, Platonic Ideas, the Is/Ought Distinction, & Kantian Ideas as Transcendental The sections that lead up to the paralogisms of pure reason...
Kant’s treatment of transcendental illusion appears in the opening section of the Transcendental Dialectic (B349ff.). In it, he addresses the way in which reason, when...
An experience many readers have doubtless had going through the pages of the Critique of Pure Reason is that Kant often later clarifies ideas he...
Contents: Pure Concepts vs. Images The Difficulty This Creates and the Need for Schemata What is a Schema? Schematism and the Categories Following upon the...
A common ingredient in murder mysteries is the search for a motive. Sometimes, where a motive appears strong enough, assumptions are made as to the...
Aristotle’s phrase to ti ên einai is generally understood as a formula for expressing the notion of “essence.” But the word “essence” glosses over the difficulty of adequately capturing...
Despite the appeal of the power of collective action, individuals should sacrifice their happiness and their lives for the good of the state in exceptional cases, not as a way of life. The good of “the state” should become the foremost consideration in times when collective action is needed, but otherwise, individual liberty, for better of worse, ought to be our guiding light in the interest of the development of human potential and its fulfillment.
(Continued from the City of Pigs discussion) Once we move beyond the dialogue about the two cities (moderate and luxurious) in book 2, we immediately...