Kant Critique Flashcards

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Deontology

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(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.”

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What does Kant Mean when he says “conceptions without perceptions are empty, perceptions without conceptions are blind.”

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You need both of the them to facilitate knowledge and thus the knowledge of an object

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What do you call the receptivity of sense data?

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Intuition

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What is sensibility?

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Sensibility is the human power to receive sense impressions.

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What is meant by “pure” ?

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A Priori

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Which pure intuitions (without relying on experience) provide the basis for synthetic A-priori knowledge?

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Space and time ex. With time we have the a priori Arithmetic with Space we get geometry

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What is the meaning of Transcendental?

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in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.

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Transcendental

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Pre structuring of experience by the mind.

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9
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Kant on desire

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A faculty of being through its representations the cause of the reality of the objects of these representations

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