Kant Flashcards
What type of philosophy does Kant use?
German philosophy
What is Kant the first of?
First university professor
What could Kant not accept about Hume?
Hume’s limit to knowing, that beyond our sensory knowledge there is just simple skepticism
What does Kant take away from Hume, that he really appreciates?
( 2 pts)
Causality:
-Causality is subjective
-This means that science is a matter of belief. You can only believe that it is going to happen.
Kant is a believer of God.
True or False
True
His first critique, is the critique of Pure Reason, what is it?
(3 pts)
-Pure reason is a priori
-It is a metaphysic reason
-It is rational
Where does the word critique come from in Greek?
What does it mean?
-The word is Krinein
-It means to establish limits of something, trying to establish the limits of pure reason
What did Kant focus a lot on?
morality
What is critical philosophy/what does criticism mean to Kant?
-Criticism means to establish the limits to something
Kant says we need…
sense perceptions, intuitions
What does intuition mean?
meaning sense input
What are the two forms of sensuous intuitions ?
-Space and time (time is subjective)
What are these categories Kant mentions about?
(3 pts)
-When we make judgements about things, we do these according to these categories
-Categories: quantity or quality or modality (refers to their status as possible, real or necessary) or relation (causality)
-These are knowledge statements- knowledge is the ability to make statements
What is 5+7=12 an example of ? What does 12 signify?
(2 pts)
-This is an example of synthetical judgement, a priori reasoning
-It is synthetic because 12 is not in the concepts of 7, +, 5, or =. Rather 12 contains the union of these two numbers
What does synthetical mean?
a posteriori, empirical
