Philosophy 60

Question 0

What “attempt,” in Kant’s view, had only produced Skepticisms?

Answer 0

The attempt of philosophers and theologians to rationalize religion

Question 1

What was knowledge for the modern mind?

Answer 1

Subjectively constructed and therefore fundamentally dislocated

Question 2

According to Kant, how could man view himself?

Answer 2

As a phenomenon subject to the laws of nature or a noumenon which could be thought of (not known) as free, immortal, and subject to God

Question 3

What “things filled the heart” for Kant?

Answer 3

“The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me”

Question 4

What was Kant’s transcendent ego?

Answer 4

Kant’s notion of the human self that imposed categories and heuristic unifying principles on experience to render knowledge

Question 5

What contrasts with Idealism?

Answer 5

Materialism and naturalism

Question 6

Why could the human mind no longer be relied upon?

Answer 6

Man could no longer assume his mind’s interpretation of the world to be a mirror like reflection of things as they actually were

Question 7

Why should Philosophy “concern itself only with therapeutic clarification?

Answer 7

Because human experience was structured by language, but no direct relation between language and an independent deeper structure in the world could be presumed