Chapter 3b Sources of GI Flashcards
Is Kant a Berklyan idealist?
Kant rejects idealism but one of questions of GI is whether K is a Berkleyan idealist (being is perceiving) despite himself
Why does Jacobi question K?
He questions idea that things in selves cause appearances
What was jacobi concerned about direction of philosophy at this time ?
That heading in spinozist direction where things on dependent on instinsic but on their not being other things. Things condition each other. The infinite regression for Jacobi is stopped by god.
What was pantheism controversy?
When Jacobi accused Lessing of having admitted to being a spinozist.
What is problem with Jacobi explanation in terms of philosophy?
It cannot serve as end up needing to find conditions of unconditioned.
What is GI’s relationship with unconditioned?
Tries new ways of explicating it or Absolute
What is Jacobi concern for science.
That there is no ultimate legitimisation because one can always find more causal explanations but there can be no ultimate reason for doing so.
What point does Jacobi make that also becomes part of Heidegger?
Science can only function in world that has made itself intelligible before scientific accounts
Why does jacobi regards spinozism as nihilism?
Because it offers no account of how it is being is intelligible at all
How might we characterise GI in terms the of issue of conditions of subjectivity?
GI exploiting idea that subjectivity is unconditioned.
What did Maimon have to say about foundation for knowledge?
That Kants division between receptive and spontaneous world cannot be sustained. The existence of obj world INFERRED from supposed causality of things in themselves but category of causality depends on subject not object.
What does he say about the subject-object relationship?
That it just entails two kinds of consciousness, rather than subjective consciousness and a separate objective world. The world appears to be objective because what produces perceptions of the ‘external world’ is the ‘unconscious’ side of the subject.
What aspect of Hermann’s idea is crucial for GI?
The idea that the receptive and the spontaneous cannot be wholly separate. If apparent passive receptivity and active spontaneity are in fact different degrees of the same ‘activity’ the gap between subject and object can be closed. Consciousness would then be seen as of the world in two senses: it belongs to world, as something which emerges from nature, and t makes the world into the object of knowledge and acton. The question is how to interpret these two senses.
