Kant Critique Flashcards
Deontology
(from Greek δέον, deon, “obligation, duty”) is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action’s adherence to a rule or rules. It is sometimes described as “duty-“ or “obligation-“ or “rule-“ based ethics, because rules “bind you to your duty.”
What does Kant Mean when he says “conceptions without perceptions are empty, perceptions without conceptions are blind.”
You need both of the them to facilitate knowledge and thus the knowledge of an object
What do you call the receptivity of sense data?
Intuition
What is sensibility?
Sensibility is the human power to receive sense impressions.
What is meant by “pure” ?
A Priori
Which pure intuitions (without relying on experience) provide the basis for synthetic A-priori knowledge?
Space and time ex. With time we have the a priori Arithmetic with Space we get geometry
What is the meaning of Transcendental?
in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.
Transcendental
Pre structuring of experience by the mind.
Kant on desire
A faculty of being through its representations the cause of the reality of the objects of these representations