Philosophy 59 Flashcards
What was the burden of Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason?”
If Newton had attained certain knowledge, and Hume had demonstrated how such knowledge was impossible, how could Newton have succeeded?
What intellectual challenge did Kant face?
To reconcile the claim of religion that man was morally free with the claim of science that nature was determined by necessary laws
In Kant’s view, what is the “nature of the human mind?”
It actively digests and structures sense data
What is experience?
A construction of the mind imposed on sensation
What does “predigested” refer to?
Knowledge is restricted to the sensible effects of things on us, and these appearances are, as it were, predigested
What “two models” are given?
Models of knowing by thinking and sensing, which must be simultaneous
What is Philosophy’s “true work?”
To investigate the formal structure of the mind
